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Are you personally dumping your used plastic in the ocean? Trash from just 10 rivers is responsible for 90 percent of ocean plastic pollution: https://www.scie

Are you personally dumping your used plastic in the ocean? Trash from just 10 rivers is responsible for 90 percent of ocean plastic pollution: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plastic-tide-10-rivers-contribute-most-of-the-plastic-in-the-oceans/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas... Those 10 rivers are all in the developing world and China: the Hai, Nile, Meghna, Brahmaputra, Ganges, Pearl, Amur, Niger, Mekong, Indus, Yellow, and Yangtze. In terms of countries that's: China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, Egypt, Nigeria.

dmarlow 8y ago
What about trash we send to them to recycle but ends up in the ocean?
mrnobody_67 8y ago
Seems like a crazy good opportunity for a few NGOs to show incredibly high environmental benefits for a few bucks.... put up barriers, nets, or filters in the 10 sources, capture and dispose before it reaches the ocean.
bennettfeely 8y ago
And as the 60 Minutes documentary talks about, the US ships a huge amount of recycled plastics across the ocean to countries like Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and until recently, China. So the plastic you throw in the recycling bin in the US might very well end up in one of those 10 polluted rivers and in the ocean.
rypskar 8y ago
>Trash from just 10 rivers is responsible for 90 percent of ocean plastic pollution Is this still being misquoted? If you read the article you will see that it say 90% of plastic pollution from rivers are from those 10 rivers, not 90% of plastic pollution. A large part of the plastic pollution is not coming through rivers. It is also not much of a surprise that the rivers with most pollution is large rivers going through areas where many peoples live. Have anyone calculated how much is is per person living next to the rivers? I'm not saying that it isn't important to clean up those rivers, but that it still is important what each of us do

dmarlow 8y ago

What about trash we send to them to recycle but ends up in the ocean?

mrnobody_67 8y ago

Seems like a crazy good opportunity for a few NGOs to show incredibly high environmental benefits for a few bucks.... put up barriers, nets, or filters in the 10 sources, capture and dispose before it reaches the ocean.

bennettfeely 8y ago

And as the 60 Minutes documentary talks about, the US ships a huge amount of recycled plastics across the ocean to countries like Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and until recently, China. So the plastic you throw in the recycling bin in the US might very well end up in one of those 10 polluted rivers and in the ocean.

rypskar 8y ago

>Trash from just 10 rivers is responsible for 90 percent of ocean plastic pollution Is this still being misquoted? If you read the article you will see that it say 90% of plastic pollution from rivers are from those 10 rivers, not 90% of plastic pollution. A large part of the plastic pollution is not coming through rivers. It is also not much of a surprise that the rivers with most pollution is large rivers going through areas where many peoples live. Have anyone calculated how much is is per person living next to the rivers? I'm not saying that it isn't important to clean up those rivers, but that it still is important what each of us do