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jbcmh81 t1_j8schh8 wrote

Reply to comment by ryanasmith94 in [OC] Plastic waste emitted to the ocean per country by sometiara1

Is the Philippines forced to take anyone else's trash, though?

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vlsdo t1_j8t397w wrote

No, they do it because there's money to be made from it. In a sense, you could say they're forced into it by the global economy, although it's more like an emergent behavior in response to economic factors rather than true coercion.

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jbcmh81 t1_j8te4qg wrote

This seems like an issue with their government then.

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vlsdo t1_j8texpv wrote

And the governments of all the countries that export their plastics with full knowledge they're ending up in the ocean

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jbcmh81 t1_j8u8dgu wrote

I'm not absolving them, but plenty of nations get trash and it doesn't end up in the ocean to anywhere near the degree that it does in the Philippines. So they should be taking only what they can actually process. Again, they're under no obligation to take anything at all.

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