I don't believe this. -- About two years ago there was a study which said that 88 to 95 percent of the total global load of plastics in the oceans [edit: wrong

I don't believe this. -- About two years ago there was a study which said that 88 to 95 percent of the total global load of plastics in the oceans [edit: wrong see below] would come from 10 rivers: - https://phys.org/news/2017-10-plastic-rivers-stem-plastics-ocean.html https://phys.org/news/2017-10-plastic-rivers-stem-plastics-o... - https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15611 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15611 and link to table https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15611/tables/1 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15611/tables/1 Still, of course, fishermen shouldn't throw their plastic bottles over board and better care to their fishing nets.