Americans have landfills and Germans recycle and burn the plastic.
Where is all the plastic in the oceans coming from???
Where is all the plastic in the oceans coming from???
The plastic created and received in Asia often lands in landfills and subsequently in rivers. A handful of major streams transport massive amounts of plastic waste into the Pacific ocean [1].
That's at least where a good chunk of it is coming from. That's how you get US or European plastic running down rivers in China into the Pacific.
[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...