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Scientists say otherwise: https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/environment/plastic-for-recycling-from-europe-ends-up-in-asian-waters/ https://www.europeanscient

• ars 6y ago
  If you read the study they don't have great data, so they do a lot of estimating. According to the study itself it's 1% to 7% of recycling that ends up in the ocean. Obviously any amount is bad, but this isn't a significant source of river plastic. And to really drive the point home: According to the article the plastic ends up in rivers because of bad local trash management!! (As opposed to deliberate dumping.) So the solution is exactly as others have said: These countries need modern municipal trash pickup. The problem does not originate in Europe or USA. BTW: This is a very poor study, for example they use numbers for San Fransisco Bay watershed to estimate numbers for India.