Thanks for the links. I didn’t know that most plastics sink. The numbers there lead to the treatment cost of $3.33 per kg. Since the damage is always (much) higher than solutions, and since assigning values to human and animal lives is just a totally arbitrary task, like someone has pointed out, I’ll just say it’s $1/cutlery piece. Sounds agreeable enough?
Why not 1c? or $10? There’s as much evidence for either figure.
What’s several orders of magnitude between friends?
I know you are trying to do something worthy, but making up bullshit statistics helps only those who seek to discredit you.
I’d say it also somewhat enables that particular type of capitalist who believes the free market is some sort of problem-solving god.
(as in “the cost is acceptable, who do I pay to dump these plastic forks in the ocean?”)