Great documentary, thanks. This puts the recent "90% of ocean plastic comes from Asian/African rivers" story[1] in a drastically new light. The issue was prev

Great documentary, thanks. This puts the recent "90% of ocean plastic comes from Asian/African rivers" story[1] in a drastically new light. The issue was previously framed in terms of poor waste management due to lack of infrastructure for native waste (agreed) and uneducated Asian/African consumers (a blame-laundering technique that the disposable product industry has already successfully deployed in the US[2]). But on further examination, it seems the countries with "good infrastructure"[3] and "well-educated wasters" may be part of (or even a majority of) the problem. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16913389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16913389 [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20050401192355/http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21651/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050401192355/http://www.altern... [3] "good waste infrastructure" being, in part, a euphemism for "keep that expensive-to-handle waste in a box until it's outside our border so it's technically Not Our Problem"