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Better waste management in the North will prevent polar bears from turning to human made trash for survival. They then will adapt in other ways, such as hunting on land instead of at sea. Conflict has happened, and will continue.
The direct cause of polar bear scavenging is the loss of sea ice due to warming in the Arctic, the result of the climate crisis.