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Re:Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Laye... by tty2300 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @10:55PM (#19987956)
Likely to change soon. Those areas have stopped buying plastic waste from the rest of the world.
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Re:Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Laye... by sephamorr on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @11:11PM (#19988038)
Having seen the trash coming down several of these rivers in person, everything I could identify seemed to be of local origin. I certainly didn't see non-local languages written on plastic bottles, for example.
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Re:Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Laye... by internet_user on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @11:16PM (#19988071)
It's just fashionable to blame everything on the West.

The East isn't any different.

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Re:Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Laye... by daodedickinson on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @11:23PM (#19988110)
So absolutely nothing was coming from upstream? Or, at least, it seemed local trash was dominating the area and perhaps staying put?

Perhaps when it gets too full of local trash, some of it gets moved to the ocean?

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Re:Study Pinpoints Source of Banned Gas That Saps Ozone Laye... by ars on Thursday May 23, 2019 @12:02AM (#19988323)
Why would that change anything? This is local trash in the rivers not recycling.
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