r/worldnews - Makers of cigarettes, takeaway coffee cups and other sources of litter will pay for future garbage sweeps: Environment Minister and Germany's 1,500 local body utilities insisted future bills should be paid by suppliers whose throwaways end up quickly littering landscape or in communal trash bins.

Microplastics have been found in human livers recently. The trash cycle is complete. Garbage we threw out decades ago has gone through the environment and back into the food we eat. The evidence is in and our own trash is killing us.

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