King of the heap: US named world’s top trash maker, risks being buried in its own garbage.
While the US makes up 4% of the world’s population it produces 12% of its trash, more than both China and India. To make matters worse, it is also terrible at managing its garbage output, recycling a small percentage of waste. As trash continues to saturate the world’s oceans and mount in developing countries where waste from the first world is offshored, the US could be headed for crisis as more and more countries begin to refuse to take America’s mountains of garbage. Unlike Germany, where 68% of waste is reused, the US recycles 35%, making it particularly dependent on shipping the problem elsewhere, according to a new report.
“The US is the only developed nation whose waste generation outstrips its ability to recycle, underscoring a shortage of political will and investment in infrastructure,” the report said.
>“The US is the only developed nation whose waste generation outstrips its ability to recycle."
An obvious lie to anyone with a three digit IQ.
Austin Martin
>While the US makes up 4% of the world’s population it produces 12% of its trash, more than both China and India. Implying that the US produces more waste than China and India while later in the article >While China unsurprisingly produced the most trash by volume, it was among the few major countries that actually produced less than its share of waste by percentage of world population
So yeah if you want to go by per capita while trusting the Chinese governments calculations about their own pollution they don't look so bad. Meanwhile in reality however...
Oliver Reed
Me under the cart
Adrian Walker
And they like it
Christian Harris
More than China or India? Sounds like horseshit to me
Bentley Diaz
Stats are fake. China and India throw all their trash in the river so it's not counted. We actually count the vast majority of our waste.
>China produces several times more trash, pollution, and ocean garbage than the U.S. “The US is the only developed nation whose waste generation outstrips its ability to recycle, underscoring a shortage of political will and investment in infrastructure,” the report said.
The disturbing statistics come from research by the UK-based global risk and strategic consulting firm Maplecroft, who measured the waste generation and recycling performance of 194 countries to produce a profile of the world’s worst polluters.
While China unsurprisingly produced the most trash by volume, it was among the few major countries that actually produced less than its share of waste by percentage of world population. Despite having been one of the world’s worst polluters for many years, China has recently made major environmental investments, greening its economy, whereas the US has been comparatively slow to adapt. And the US environmental issues extend beyond its quickly amassing mountains of trash; in terms of climate change, President Donald Trump has been notoriously skeptical about the issue, even calling the idea a “Chinese plot” against American manufacturing. Last month, another report revealed that the US military is the “single largest producer” of greenhouse gases in the world.
"RT wins 9 awards, incl 2 golds, at prestigious New York Festivals" Published time: 26 Apr, 2017
RT has bagged nine medals at this year's New York Festivals awards for the world’s best TV and film work. The channel's series of special reports from Libya and a documentary on the water crisis in India received top prizes. The RT network was nominated in 18 categories of the prestigious international television and film competition, and received awards in half of them – two gold, four silver and three bronze. "Winning at international competitions has become a good tradition for us,” said RT's editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan.
More than 50 countries were represented in the programs honored by the 2017 International Television & Film Awards. RT was competing for the main prizes in more categories than a number of other major international channels, such as the BBC and CNN.
user, YOU ARE PARANOID BEYOND ANY MEDICAL PSYCHIATRIC HELP. Give your empty head a good shake, or even smack it against the wall few times to see if you can agitate those 3 brains cells you still have left to start functioning again.
