Comment Re:Good for them... (Score 2, Interesting) 51
New York would literally send their plastic waste to New Jersey for recycling. What NJ ended up doing is loading up so-called "garbage barges" with this waste plastic, and set them out to sea with no crew. They ended up in places like Spain and Belize and it caused major diplomatic issues in the '80's.
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