SUFB 807: Politics And Plastic Pollution
How To Protect The Ocean · Speak Up For Blue
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Show Notes
There is a video that is making rounds on Canadian Social Media feeds that attacks the proposed bill on a Canadian-wide ban of single-use plastics by 2021. While the rest of the world is rejoicing at the thought of the ban, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's opponents say the bill should not matter because Canada does not produce most of the plastic pollution as compared to other nations.
It is estimated that 165 million tons of plastic pollution in the ocean.
Even 1%, which is what the video estimates as Canada's plastic pollution output is, of that would be over 1 million tons of plastic pollution. That's quite a bit of pollution.
I refute many of the "facts" that the video provides.
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