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Recycling Myth of the Month: Plastic waste is not just a 'developing country problem'
Emily Petsko, Oceana Plastics & Pollution
“The problem isn’t us. We recycle and we keep our beaches clean,” you might hear someone say. “They are the ones polluting rivers and oceans with plastic trash.”
They, in these conversations, are typically China, India, and smaller developing countries in Asia.
In 2019, then-U.S. President Donald Trump echoed these sentiments when asked about the ubiquity of plastic waste. “Other countries are not taking care of their plastic use and they haven’t for a long time,” he said. “And the plastic that we’re getting is floating across the ocean from other places, including China.”
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