Article by Laura Tendall
For an administration who continuously prioritise profit over people, their feckless approach hardly comes as a surprise – it’s cheaper for us (in the short term) to export our problem than to incur the costs of dealing with it ourselves. At the same time, it enables us to meet recycling targets, and thus claim environmentalism without taking any responsibility for where this waste ultimately ends up. In this way, we allow ourselves to reap the benefits of plastic and pass the negative impacts onto others.