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how does that combine with the world's trash being shipped to East Asia to be dealt with? is it actually Asian consumers creating the waste, or is it American
by 8note 8y ago
how does that combine with the world's trash being shipped to East Asia to be dealt with?
is it actually Asian consumers creating the waste, or is it American trash being thrown in Chinese rivers?
- bodas 8y agoIt's Asian consumers. People throw their trash in the river then it floats out to sea.
- dragonsky67 8y agoYeah,them Asians, no true American would ever litter...
- gsich 8y agoBased on their source above: Way less then Asians.
- malloryerik 8y agoNot sure which Asians you're taking about. Certainly not Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, for example, whose cities are generally cleaner than Western counterparts. Asia is big...
- rorykoehler 8y agoPhilippines and India primarily.
- BurningFrog 8y agoFrom the article: > China is at the top of list of ocean plastic polluters, accounting for 28 percent the total amount of plastics thrown into the oceans each year. About 60 percent of plastics in the oceans are discarded by the fast growing East Asian economies of China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
- jlawson 8y agoThose countries you mentioned are under ~5% of the Asian total. The poster above is talking about the other 95%. Asia is 4.5 billion people. The Asian population is over four times that of all the Western countries combined.