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Land-locked countries do not make it onto the graphic. Think they all count as releasing no waste into the oceans.

Yep - I made the 101 error of not checking the scales!

The graph makes it look like they put more plastic in the oceans than they produce. Are they dumping trash for other countries?

There are different scales between the two different coloured circles. They do not appear to be directly comparable in size. Philippines has been rated as highest per capita emitter of mismanaged plastic. Presumably this relates in part to it's geography, lots of rivers, lots of coastline vs land mass.

Da fuq are the dudes in Trinidad getting up to ?!

Who the fuck are these people? I've never heard of any of them other than Beyonce.

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Since this reddit doesnt really allows questions, maybe op/someone can answer me here:
How do you do such beautiful graphics?
Like i would be able to do everything by hand but i assume there is some sort of automation process?
I just got into this in school as a media designer but we only learned the different types of infographics and how to do the basics with excel/ai...

Doesn't work like that, these are plastics that are badly classified and dirty. Classifying and recycling them in developed countries is not economically viable, but with cheap labor from poor countries it is, so they buy them for nearly nothing, and they process them.

Thing is, most of it is not useful, so all of that unusable, unrecyclable plastic ends un in a poor country without the means to get rid of it. China used to do this until they banned the import of those plastics because the impact on people's health was more expensive to treat than the economic margin, and now it's done in SE Asia.

So, the blame is on developed countries for producing an incredible amount of unrecyclable plastics and shipping it there, not on poor people trying to make a living out of recycling it.

Georg Solti and Pierre Boulez aren’t American either. They’re classical conductors

Do you have data proportional to the population too?

Why have I not heard of any of these people besides Allison Krause, Beyoncé, and Quincey Jones?

Whaaat?! Also this graph is dope

Ah. Ok, now that makes sense. Thanks.

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Why doesn't the orientation of the countries change clockwise past 6 o'clock? Very nice infographic, but /r/mildlyinfuriating design choice.

You can see a much smaller circle showing the Philippines plastic waste production, and the much larger circle showing their plastic waste emission.

I know they stopped accepting Canadian plastic waste (I agree on recycling being mostly a scheme), but I have no idea what the Philippines' planned to do with the plastic waste.

Wouldn't Canada be able to bury non biodegradable plastics somewhere in the uninhabitable Canadian Shield. Maybe I should take out a billion dollar loan to start a company that imports and indefinitely buries international plastic waste? N/m back to Reddit.

The two circle colors aren't on the same scale, so no importing is needed to explain the Philippines

Really nice looking data display, thank you

Look I agree most awards shows are bull crap..but honestly I feel really bad for all of you sad lonely fucks that want to give us a paragraph as to why you didn't like the Grammys or why you think it's this or that...to be honest no one really give a shit what a couple of hundred arrogant negative trolls have to say. Try lighting up and being even 5 percent more positive. Then share your opinion in the same positive tone. You'd be surprised at the people that listen..hell if you do good enough you might actually get laid for once in y'all's sorry life's...anyway yea. Grammys where totally underrated this year I expect way more....have a great day guy!

What are the most famous or well known methods to proper visualise data? I am willing to learn different methods or use different websites and explore various options. I am sorry if this question has been asked before but I really want to know better ways to show data besides normal charts. (Please link me to previous threads if this has been mentioned before)

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What's the highest ranked country with no coastline? Sorry I'm not great with geography.

Presumably they are paid for this recycling they're meant to be doing? Where's that money going? Not into the rivers with the water clearly.