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I've heard that 80% of plastic pollutions in the oceans are from African big rivers being used as dumpsters and then flushing their yield to the sea. Why TF ar
by thriftwy 2y ago
I've heard that 80% of plastic pollutions in the oceans are from African big rivers being used as dumpsters and then flushing their yield to the sea.
Why TF are we supposed to limit plastic use in developed countries, often located deep inland, where our plastic has many orders of magnitude smaller chance of polluting the oceans, etc?
- robocat 2y ago> African You have heard wrong. Then again: "More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean" https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaz5803 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaz5803 Has some nice maps of waste versus country: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaz5803#F4 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaz5803#F4 "Around 90% of all river-borne plastic that ends up in the ocean comes from just 10 rivers" https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluting-our-oceans-comes-from-just-10-rivers/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti... Not necessarily contradictory, but an indication of disagreement.
- stoperaticless 2y agoThe map shows asia and south america as top offenders.
- thriftwy 2y agoThanks - I'm surprised that Amur is also on the list. I'd expect everybody on its banks has figured out how to deal with waste by now.