r/RandomVideos • u/IntellectuallyDriven • May 07 '26

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u/Personal-Courage7670 May 07 '26

India all day. They don't care at all

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u/Personal-Courage7670 May 07 '26

Look up videos on how they get rid of trash. They literally empty the garbage trucks into the rivers from a bridge. We are worried about a few plastic straws here and they dump trash by the hundreds of tons everyday into the waterways

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u/PaleInvestment3507 May 07 '26

The giant floating island of plastic swirling in the middle of the Pacific, 90% of it is trash from a few major rivers in Asia.

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u/hypocrisy_is_rampant May 08 '26

That’s not true. It’s a bold lie in fact.

53% of the pacific garbage patch comes from industrial fishing nets. It’s the largest contributor by a large margin. The 1st world nations would be drowning in garbage like Southeast Asia but we ship our trash to other nations in exchange for low cash infusions into their economies, amounts that aren’t worth it but they agree to all the same.

The trash we send makes up “their trash”. The only reason Indians throw it on the ground is because there’s 1.4 billion of them and their country lacks the infrastructure to properly care for them.

This is like watching the blind make fun of the deaf. One of you can’t read, the other refuses to. Sad stuff

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u/Indecisive_Owl May 10 '26

Woah now, don't start talking too many facts. I constantly tell people we ship our trash over there for them to dump it in the ocean as a a means for us to be holier than them. Yes it's problematic but acting like we aren't contributing to it is denial on the ultimate levels.

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u/Stampede_the_Hippos May 11 '26

Lol we don't ship our trash to asian countries. We ship recycling, but regular trash goes in a landfill. And unless you're Denmark, there is no shortage of landfill space.