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We also know the source of the plastic in the ocean... turns out it boils down to a very small number of rivers, in a very specific region of the world. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...

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Likely to change soon. Those areas have stopped buying plastic waste from the rest of the world.

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.

It's just fashionable to blame everything on the West.

The East isn't any different.

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?

Why would that change anything? This is local trash in the rivers not recycling.

Tarrifs proportionate to percentage of pollutants in river outflow should work great.

I've heard they say you tax things you don't want to see? why not tax pollution at the source, the rivers?

Tried that but the river had no money.

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