> China is far and away the worst offender Those data are from 2011, and at the time China was importing huge quantities of plastic from the entire world. This

> China is far and away the worst offender Those data are from 2011, and at the time China was importing huge quantities of plastic from the entire world. This was documented in Plastic China[1], a censored[2] short film which rumor has it was instrumental in getting China to cut down on their mixed plastic imports.[3] I'd be curious how the situation has changed since then. It's an important distinction. The plastic is coming from Chinese rivers, but that doesn't mean it originated from Chinese consumers. It just means China wasn't rich enough to box it up and ship it across the border (like was done to them). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooRVhRt1p54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooRVhRt1p54 [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/world/asia/chinas-environmental-woes-in-films-that-go-viral-then-vanish.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/world/asia/chinas-environ... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1767769x8 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1767769x8