[NicoJuicy]

95% of all plastic from rivers comes from these 10, none are in the west:

Eight of them are in Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa – the Nile and the Niger.

https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2017/11/06/jus...

[rmah]

Are those rivers, by any chance, the rivers along which most people live? Weird that.

[bart_spoon]

Do 95% of the world's river-adjacent population live along those rivers? That's the question to be asking.