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by p3llin0r3 2924 days ago
Western nations aren't the problem, it's developing countries with poor waste infrastructure and industrial vessels.

https://www.statista.com/chart/12211/the-countries-polluting...

2 comments

It is a very delicate question of responsibility. Developing countries pollute the oceans most, but the source of waste is - to a large degree - western nations. So probably, the best way to put it, is to say that both are responsible. However, now things have changed, with China at least.
Yeah, we're the problem. It's OUR plastic that China isn't allowing in anymore.