Ocean Plastic Pollution Sources

it’s not everyone, it is specifically poorer countries that contribute the vast majority to plastic pollution in the ocean via waste mismanagement. if you want an issue to be solved, it helps to look up and understand the specifics first!e: since you basically askedhttps://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollutionhttps://ou

~90% of the plastic debris in the ocean comes from ten rivers [0]. eight are in china/SEA. millions and billions of single-use items are sitting in warehouses and on store shelves wrapped in plastic. even before the plastic is discarded, the factories these items are produced in dump metric tons of waste into the oceans/soil with little repercussion.point is, none of our "personal lifestyle decisions" - not eating meat, not mining bitcoin, not using chatgpt, not driving ca

Can you do this globally? Most ocean plastic is not from the US or EU.

People are downvoting this, but it's true:http://oceancrusaders.org/plastic-crusades/plastic-statistic...https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-pol

The problem isn't plastic, the problem is everyone throwing it onto the oceans. And blaming the "third world" isn't gonna help

> "big, intangible thing"As the article stated, the global problem of plastic waste entering the ocean may be big, but it is definitely not intangible. The source of most plastic entering the ocean is poor coastal countries that lack developed solid waste management. (By contrast, the US is responsible for only 1% of plastic that enters the ocean annually.)It took me some time, but I found a non-profit that helps develop waste management in African countries. If you wan

The issue is that 90% of the plastic in the ocean is dumped from 10 rivers in Asia and Africa where the waste disposal system consists of driving a truck up to a river and dumping the trash in. Of the remaining 10%, it comes from Latin American nations that do the same thing.Meanwhile western people see these masses of trash and plastic in the ocean and conclude the rational response is to ban straws in the western nations that do have effective waste disposal systems that don't consist

Plastic doesn't actually necessarily end up in the ocean. Most plastic in the ocean comes from certain countries, like the Philippines, while other countries contribute basically not at all. The problem here is mainly the law and law enforcement in certain countries which fail to prevent dumping plastic in the sea. But that's not an overly hard thing to prevent, because many countries are doing it successfully.

I think you may want to reexamine things. What you describe is just about the last cause for concern about ocean plastic pollution. You should look into it a bit.Of the supposed total 5.25 Trillion pieces of plastic or 269,000 tons in the ocean[1], apparently 90% of that comes from 9 rivers, 7 in Asia and 2 in Africa[2]. And the rest of the world, essentially all of the Americas including the immensely plastic polluting central American rivers, Australia, and all of Europe only contribute 10%

Interesting.Meanwhile, apparently Asian countries dump more plastic into the ocean than the rest of the world combined.https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahleung/2018/04/21/five-asi...