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>Around 90 percent of the plastic polluting our oceans comes from just ten rivers, a new study has shown. >Eight of those rivers are in Asia, with the remainin
by goatsi 8y ago
>Around 90 percent of the plastic polluting our oceans comes from just ten rivers, a new study has shown.
>Eight of those rivers are in Asia, with the remaining two — the Nile and the Niger — in Africa.
https://nypost.com/2017/12/12/10-rivers-are-responsible-for-90-of-the-plastic-in-the-ocean/ https://nypost.com/2017/12/12/10-rivers-are-responsible-for-...
- jessaustin 8y ago(Yangtze, Indus, Yellow, Hai, Nile, Meghna, Pearl, Amur, Niger, Mekong)
- epicureanideal 8y agoSo it seems that filtering the output of these rivers seems like a feasible solution to dramatically reduce ocean plastic. It doesn't sound prohibitively expensive.
- ptoniato 8y agoIt is incorrect: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/42315/do-10-asian-and-african-rivers-generate-90-of-plastic-trash-in-the-ocean https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/42315/do-10-asi...