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This Plastic Mr. Fantastic (mander.xyz)
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Does the US keep any statistics on how much trash goes to where? I just checked the stats for my country, and here it's way more than 5%. link if you're interested

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I'm seeing a lot of articles putting the rate at 5%. Google is just so much worse than it used to be...

    That 5% figure is 3 years old, and one report from 2018 had the figure at 8.7% so it appears to be dropping. Based on the political climate in the US that number is unlikely to my rise anytime soon.

    That 5% figure comes from The Guardian, a British newspaper, which I would actually trust more than a domestic source at this point. Based on what I've read about what the Trump administration has done to the EPA, I would imagine any new pollution reports won't be a possibility for a while.

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