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Likely to change soon. Those areas have stopped buying plastic waste from the rest of the world.

• sephamorr 7y ago
  Having seen the trash coming down several of these rivers in person, everything I could identify seemed to be of local origin. I certainly didn't see non-local languages written on plastic bottles, for example.
  • internet_user 7y ago
    It's just fashionable to blame everything on the West. The East isn't any different.
  • daodedickinson 7y ago
    So absolutely nothing was coming from upstream? Or, at least, it seemed local trash was dominating the area and perhaps staying put? Perhaps when it gets too full of local trash, some of it gets moved to the ocean?
• ars 7y ago
  Why would that change anything? This is local trash in the rivers not recycling.