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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Yup. And that circles us right back to the per capita problem: we use it disingenuously to give the appearance that fully developed economies are virtually the entire problem while developing economies with high populations are not. So while waste creation in India and China grows and grows, we here in Canada (and even, more ridiculously, places like Finland) get to be demonized despite creating a tiny fraction of same.
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The real question is how much of China's waste should actually be attributed to it's export markets? Of course the rationale could apply to every other country, but it's almost certainly most impactful to China's numbers.
We have the same issue all the time with O&G. Personally, I think the demand side (ie. consumer) should bear more responsibility in all of this than the supply side. Demand begets supply, but supply does not beget demand.