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Re:Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic by mc32 on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @11:47AM (#17602094)
There was a recent study which has been circulating. Most (90%) of the plastics in the ocean that are not related to fishing equipment come from 8 rivers in Asia and then the Nile and Niger rivers in Africa. Mostly due to poor or unregulated waste disposal infrastructures.
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Re:Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic by rypskar on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @12:42PM (#17602720)
Is this myth still going around? If you read more than the headlines you will see that it is 90% of the plastics coming from rivers are from 10 big rivers, so it is not including any plastic that go directly into the ocean. Not that it would not help to clean up those rivers, but what you do also matter https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas...
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Re:Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic by gfo on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @11:55AM (#17602185)
Can you link the study? Why do they believe that's the case? Is it just the lack of a waste disposal infrastructure?
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Re:Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic by aero- on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @12:10AM (#17606851)
The Scientific American article states that 25% of the plastic pours into the Ocean from 10 rivers. 8 of them in Asia.
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