cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/42447832
Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned U.S. waste imports in 2018.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250626132109/https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-26/malaysia-bans-us-plastic-waste-what-will-california-do
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Dump it in the nearest red state as a thank you for pushing so hard to elect a candidate who thought tariffs had no bad consequences .
Shoving garbage to another country, while very american, isn’t really a good solution to begin with.
Red state are in the same country
Good. We need to stop producing so much plastic waste.
Good. We need to stop producing so much plastic
waste.FTFY
Ship it back to the manufacturers
Sink it in concrete blocks next to Lindberg field SanDiego international airport so they can finally expand it. But definitely don’t add a trolley station anywhere near. Inconvenient transportation is why we travel. That and getting covid.
The Middletown stop on the blue line is out of service?
Maybe use some that AI shit to engineer some microbes that can eat plastic. Or I dunno make less plastic waste?
AI sure can fix this problem. “Sure, I can help with that. Here’s your rhetorical web article about recycling actually being a sign of homosexuality or closeted femininty, aimed at 25 to 65 year old conservative men in your electorate, as requested. Let me know if you want any modifications”.
Lol I think they’re already using the same technology that is used by AI to do biochemistry, so I didn’t mean “ask chatGPT.”
I just read about toxic tofu production in Indonesia (nearby country) that burns plastic as a primary fuel source to fry up tofu. We’re surrounded by plastics and have nowhere to put the waste.
Sigh, just send it to us in Sweden, we’ll burn in cleanly and recover energy from it.
Does that work? I don’t think you can burn plastic cleanly…
Interesting, but it does sound like they are burning the general waste left over after splitting for recycling. I.e. not a lot of plastic.
Put it on a bus and send it to a republican state.
Send it as raw materials to fortify trumps wall
They should never have started in the first place. Coming from a Malaysian.
Plastic waste is a dilemma for the whole world. Unless its intended to become the fuel source for the next evolution of Earth’s dominant global species of course.
Isnt plastic made from oil already?
Most plastics, some are organically sources
You still do landfill in the US? That’s so … 20th century.
Which is crazy, because the country itself is more like the 18th century
