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Additionally, the top 10 rivers, 9 of which in Asia, produce an extremely high precent of land based ocean pollution

• immibis 2y ago
  E.g. the bottles we sent them for "recycling"
  • aziaziazi 2y ago
    For the sake of analogy: or the sea food we buy from them
  • gruez 2y ago
    That makes up a tiny amount of overall plastic waste. >I estimate that a few percent of ocean plastics could result from trade from rich countries. A figure as high as 5% would not be unreasonable. https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade
  • sofixa 2y ago
    Not only. If you go to a developing country in Asia, more likely than not you'll see that locals have no issues throwing thrash everywhere in nature because they're not conscient of the problems it causes.
    • aziaziazi 2y ago
      True, but for now Asia is far from the biggest consumer. https://tappwater.co/blogs/blog/how-many-people-consume-bottled-water-globally#:~:text=The%20bottled%20water%20market%20globally,1%20million%20bottles%20per%20minute https://tappwater.co/blogs/blog/how-many-people-consume-bott.... https://www.statista.com/statistics/505794/cds-per-capita-consumption-in-worlds-top-ten-population-countries/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/505794/cds-per-capita-co...
      • sofixa 2y ago
        Considering that in some Asian countries the only way to acquire drinkable water is to buy it bottled, I'm somewhat doubtful of those "estimates".