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Re:Plastic Pollution by sohkamyung on Monday September 03, 2018 @08:17AM (#17902146)
See also their FAQ on Plastics [1]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/faq-on-plastics

Re:Plastic Pollution by exodust on Monday September 03, 2018 @02:45PM (#17904233)
From the FAQ under what can Governments and policy-makers do:

"As a general sense of magnitude: if all countries had the management infrastructure of high-income countries (i.e. no mismanaged waste with the exception of littering), global plastics at risk of entering the ocean could decline by more than 80 percent."