I am assuming it adds more carbon and pollution to the atmosphere, but aren’t cars and cargo ships doing the same thing? If that’s the case why can’t we just burn it instead of dumping it in the ocean? Is dumping it into the sea really that much of a better option? Why is it better to pollute the sea with large clumps of plastic?
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Burning plastic is generally horrible for human health in the area. On small scales, plastic is burned along with organic materials in trash pits and it’s just a little noxious. On an industrial scale, the plastic trash of one city being burned every day would make living in that city hell on earth. Fairly sure that the pollutants would disperse with the winds and have horrible health effects downwind for hundreds of miles.
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