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82% of people who quote statistics get them wrong. From your article: > A recent study estimates that more than a quarter of all that waste could be pouring i
by MichaelApproved 8y ago
82% of people who quote statistics get them wrong.
From your article:
> A recent study estimates that more than a quarter of all that waste could be pouring in from just 10 rivers, eight of them in Asia.
The 93% stat relates to just rivers as a source of plastic pollution.
> rivers collectively dump anywhere from 0.47 million to 2.75 million metric tons of plastic into the seas every year, depending on the data used in the models. The 10 rivers that carry 93 percent of that trash are the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl, Amur, Mekong, Indus and Ganges Delta in Asia, and the Niger and Nile in Africa.
Still bad but much less than the original stat.
- nostromo 8y agoYou’re right about that article — however when looking at all marine plastic pollution, the countries responsible are the same: most notably China and South East Asia. https://www.wsj.com/articles/which-countries-create-the-most-ocean-trash-1423767676 https://www.wsj.com/articles/which-countries-create-the-most... https://www.statista.com/chart/12211/the-countries-polluting-the-oceans-the-most/ https://www.statista.com/chart/12211/the-countries-polluting...
- glaberficken 8y agoClaiming that China and South East Asia are "responsible" for all the plastic pollution they output is seriously misguided (no offense intended=) given that the region is "the plastic factory" for the whole world.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoIs the plastic in the rivers postconsumer or preconsumer waste?
- ericdykstra 8y agoThanks for posting these. I got the original information from another article, but it was full of ads so I chose a better source to link, which is where the discrepancy comes in.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoThe West pays China and SE Asia to make millions of tons of plastic for manufacturing the products we buy. The West sends millions of tons of plastic product "for recycling". "China and South East Asia is responsible". You see no contradiction there? I sure as heck do. The West, including my own country and citizens, are just as responsible. Supply chains try (and fail oftentimes) to ensure child labour is not used. Why not pollution, environmental standards or CO2? It's not like the atmosphere and oceans respect borders.
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