Tenchusatsu is CLUELESS and/or LIAR:
#1 - The US SHITHOLE GENERATES THE MOST PLASTIC WASTE THAN ANY NATION ON EARTH.
#2 - THE US SHITHOLE contributed up to 2.24 million metric tons into the environment in 2016, and of that, MORE THAN HALF—1.5 million metric tons—was along coastlines, meaning it had a high probability of slipping into the oceans.
The 2.24 million metric tons would be enough to cover the White House lawn as high as the Empire State Building, says Jenna Jambeck, a University of Georgia environmental engineering professor and one of the study’s authors.
#3 - In 2016, more than half of the 3.91 million metric tons of plastics collected in the United States were shipped abroad. Of that, 88 percent went to nations lacking adequate resources to properly manage and process it. The team estimated that 1 million metric tons of waste exported from the U.S. ended up polluting the environment beyond its borders.
#4 - Since 2018, when China stopped buying imported plastic waste, U.S. plastic waste exports have dropped by 66 percent. The UN has also sought, through the Basel Convention, to rein in the trade of plastic waste, although the U.S. is not a signatory.
#5 - The US SHITHOLE accounted for just 4 percent of the global population in 2016, it generated 17 percent of all plastic waste. The takeaway from the new study, she says, is simple: “We really need to look at our own backyard in terms of what is happening with our own plastic waste.”
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