What plastic objects cause the most waste in the sea?

[Wry Catcher]

I don't believe a word of anything posted on a site called "EcoWatch."

Your pic looks like the coast of India, not lake Michigan.

Trumps fault that India pollutes.

Was dulpat9643 your mentor?

Does he box the ears of leftards too?

Your mentor and you, but always seem to fail. I suppose living in the box which only allows conspiracy theories and cherry picked facts by The Ministry of Truth on K St. makes hacks safe from cognitive dissonance, as you and he only see shadows; Plato explained your malady in the Analogy of the Cave.

Don't get pissed at me just because I beat you to the punch blaming Trump.

I never mentioned Trump, that makes you a liar. Of course most readers know you play fast and loose with the truth and facts. A lack of regulation has impacted our environment, not for good. Of course concrete thinkers fool themselves and no reasonable persons when they consider how a small little straw is not a big deal.

 

[there4eyeM]

What idiocy! Who ever thought that single use plastics could be commercialized without some sort of economic incentive to clean them up? This is an example of why some criticize capitalism when it shows itself to be irresponsible.

It's the people using them that are irresponsible

If people weren't such fucking pigs they wouldn't be tossing trash everywhere

'Capitalism' functions on monetary incentive, not moral. Appealing to people's 'good sense' or conscience is of limited value. If cleaning up the mess involved monetary gain, then having to do it collectively (at public expense) would not be necessary. We pay, in money and in suffering from a degraded environment, for the waste produced by companies that know full well their responsibility. Certainly, the individual that just leaves trash around is demonstrating a marginal intelligence, but what economic incentive does such a sluggard have to move his/her ass to a trash can?

 

[Skull Pilot]

What idiocy! Who ever thought that single use plastics could be commercialized without some sort of economic incentive to clean them up? This is an example of why some criticize capitalism when it shows itself to be irresponsible.

It's the people using them that are irresponsible

If people weren't such fucking pigs they wouldn't be tossing trash everywhere

'Capitalism' functions on monetary incentive, not moral. Appealing to people's 'good sense' or conscience is of limited value. If cleaning up the mess involved monetary gain, then having to do it collectively (at public expense) would not be necessary. We pay, in money and in suffering from a degraded environment, for the waste produced by companies that know full well their responsibility. Certainly, the individual that just leaves trash around is demonstrating a marginal intelligence, but what economic incentive does such a sluggard have to move his/her ass to a trash can?

It still all boils down to the fact that people are pigs.
The consumer is the end user of any product therefore the disposal of the byproducts ( packaging etc) is the sole responsibility of the end user.

 

[bripat9643]

What idiocy! Who ever thought that single use plastics could be commercialized without some sort of economic incentive to clean them up? This is an example of why some criticize capitalism when it shows itself to be irresponsible.

It's the people using them that are irresponsible

If people weren't such fucking pigs they wouldn't be tossing trash everywhere

'Capitalism' functions on monetary incentive, not moral. Appealing to people's 'good sense' or conscience is of limited value. If cleaning up the mess involved monetary gain, then having to do it collectively (at public expense) would not be necessary. We pay, in money and in suffering from a degraded environment, for the waste produced by companies that know full well their responsibility. Certainly, the individual that just leaves trash around is demonstrating a marginal intelligence, but what economic incentive does such a sluggard have to move his/her ass to a trash can?

If he owns the land, then he has every incentive. However, if it's publicly owned (meaning no one owns it) then they have no incentive.

 

[Coyote]

Kids, this isnt Politics, it is Environment, please dont derail it and try to discuss...plastic.

 

[there4eyeM]

How the remedy for all the plastic pollution will be paid for is part of the discussion. Those who make a profit from the system have an obligation to contribute to the system. That way, a just distribution of the burden can be made.
Launching a new bio-agent into the environment in order to solve what could be dealt with mechanically demands great confidence. That means testing and scrupulous control, and that means money, too.
What is the just distribution of these costs?