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That plastic waste chart really needs to be normalised - your "compared to what?" question.

It makes Germany, Japan, the UK, the Netherlands, and Canada look appallingly bad by comparison to the US on a per-capita basis.

Edit: agree about Smith. Excessive use of adjectives just makes it appear that the writer is not thinking clearly. And so can be safely ignored on that topic.

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Thomas J. Pfaff's avatar

Yes, on the waste chart. Should have mentioned that. At the very least, the waste chart should be normalized by population and perhaps even by a measure of consumption. Agreed on the Germany, etc.

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