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95% of all plastic from rivers comes from these 10, none are in the west: Eight of them are in Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; M
by NicoJuicy 3y ago
95% of all plastic from rivers comes from these 10, none are in the west:
Eight of them are in Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa – the Nile and the Niger.
https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2017/11/06/just-10-rivers-contribute-up-to-95-of-river-based-ocean-pollution/amp/ https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2017/11/06/jus...
- rmah 3y agoAre those rivers, by any chance, the rivers along which most people live? Weird that.
- bart_spoon 3y agoDo 95% of the world's river-adjacent population live along those rivers? That's the question to be asking.