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Re:Monitoring marine litter from space is now a reality by giraffe_lady on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:09PM (#40730188)
It's not "regardless" at all though. Knowing they don't have the infrastructure in place to deal with existing waste, it's easy to predict what happens when we outsource production there. However much uncontrolled waste they would generate, we are choosing to add to it.
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Re:Monitoring marine litter from space is now a reality by snthd on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:18PM (#40731510)
https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics

More than a third comes from The Philippines, India 13%, China 7%.

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Re:Monitoring marine litter from space is now a reality by jeltz on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @02:48PM (#40731243)
Most of the waste likely comes from their native consumption, not their production.
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