The polluter pays principle at the heart of the amendment could easily be reduced to a "pay to pollute" arrangement between the government and plastic producers.
Other photos. We are living in an era characterized by the consumerist voracity of man, who, due to his insatiable bulimia is completely altering the appearance of the planet: according to Prof. Ron Milo, an Israeli researcher of the Weizmann Institute of Science, the mass of industry-made materials equals the biomass, while the mass of our natural heritage has been practically reduced by almost half. In 2020, the global human-made mass surpassed all living biomass reaching 8 billion tons of plastic, exactly double the body mass of the entire animal population. Objects produced by man weigh more than those created by nature. And if we consider, as this study suggests, that “