I live on a fairly busy street and the amount of trash that we collect from drive-by dumping is astonishing. The majority is beverage containers but there is also a good amount of plastic of various forms. I thought we had a lot until I read this article.
All that plastic that you dump into the trash doesn’t always end up in a landfill/incinerator. We consistently throw away one small grocery bag’s worth of ‘trash’ on a weekly basis; we recycle one, sometimes, two bins of glass/plastic/metal weekly. By weight we recycle far more than we trash. Sadly, we are still in the majority.
I weep for the future of our planet; it won’t matter to me because I’ll be nicely decomposed by the time this really comes to a head but for those Billions of us still around it’s going to suck big time unless we start making significant changes NOW.