Our discards are turning oceans into a plastic soup.
The first worldwide estimate of where the ocean’s massive amount of plastic garbage comes from points at China and developing economies in Asia. The study, published online in the journal Science, estimates that China’s heavily coastal population contributes 1.3 million to 3.5 million tonnes of plastic to the world’s oceans each year, largely due to mismanaged waste.
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