One of the biggest sources is the fishing industry. I don't know how you'd track the origins of that waste

People had low awareness prior to trash being imported, and thus I don't see a cause and effect relationship there. In addition, the level of waste differs widely by island and village. The variation in regulations and education likely play a large role.

Nice graph, now would be interesting which companys are responcible for the emitted waste per country. Yes ppl leave much waste too, but the industrial can be regulated if the politics wouldn't be corrupt.

Rich countries ship their trash to the Philippines.

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Canada's more advanced tech can't recycle their own shit, then they pay peanuts to poor countries to take their trash so they can appear good in charts like this.

What a joke.

You could also make voting compulsory. Just sayin' :-)

Remember many countries import their waste to the Philippines. They are buried in global waste, and the should be receiving aid to help manage it.

This.

Rich countries with their more advanced tech can't recycle their own shit so they send it to poor countries, then pretend they're clean and make charts like this.

Recycling is pretty much a scam outside of metals.

That's progress. Coming from Australia ranked choice (or preferential as we call it) is the only system I have used. My jaw dropped when I learned the methods in place elsewhere.

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If you're actually able to interpret this graph, you'll the US is a huge producer of plastics, but has one of the smallest absolute emissions, and among the very lowest emissions relative to production.

All of which makes the ban on plastic straws even more idiotic.

Its very dirty and need triple the refining...obviously very expensive

Well let me shatter that by pointing out that the Philippines dumps more plastic than they produce 😬, lol.

And having been born in a place that a system they do not control has decided is the world's plastic dump might have something to do with that?

Hard to blame the locals lack of environmental awareness when the evidence of global systemic failure is staring you in the face but you managed lol

The link lists that 80% of ocean plastics is land-based, I’m assuming river based plastics are considered land-based. Is that correct?

I wonder if Philippines is also the largest importer of the US trash.

The part that surprised me the most is why does Germany produce that much plastic waste? The UK and Japan comparatively produce a lot less and Japan is notorious for packaging literally everything in plastic.

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They do import waste. That's true. But a lot of locals have zero environmental awareness and treat the ocean as a garbage can.

Fake news! We all know America is the worst ever at everything.

Yup, they import a lot of plastic goods. China and the US produce most of the plastic in the world but most of it is not disposed of in those countries, its exported.

As far as I could see the only country on the list with no coastline on an ocean, is Kazakhstan at 5th last. There are a number of countries with short or very short coastlines relative to their size though, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Iraq and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Wow, a plot that doesn't show America as the worst country in the world for once.

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