With larger dots and labels (state abbreviations) this would be more interpretable.

No, I live in Europe and we are constantly bombed with news about how much we pollute the fucking world but no single word about Asia or billionaires. So we are the worst and you are second after us because America is sometimes mentioned.

Yeah, I would definetly increase the size of the points and all text further, if I was going to post again. It seems pretty good when clicked fullscreen, but everything is a little small at the default size reddit embeds it at.

Good call on abbreviations and outliers.

For anyone who wants to know, the highest gun ownership rate is Montana at 65.7%, the highest gun homicide rate is Louisiana, at 9.29 per 100K, and the lowest for both is Hawaii.

I actually realized I screwed up the chart, the highest gun homicide rate is DC at 19.72, I completely cut it off the top of the chart.

So why we have stupid paper items instead of plastic in Europe when the problem is actually in Asia? Let's ban knives in Germany because someone in Brazil got stabbed!

Ah, it's rewarding to see a graph where we're not the monsters for a change.

What does it look like if you took both stats from the same year?

I see Plastic Generated was taken from 2010 and Chucked into the Ocean was from 2019.

I can't speak for anywhere else but around 2014/15 the UK started charging for and phasing out single-use plastic bags for things like shopping and groceries. I'd quite like to see how it would differ over those 9 years.

The dots should be bigger. Much bigger. If you do nothing else do that. The fonts should be bigger.

Also, you can definitely label the states, if you want to. Use two letter abbreviations. And where it gets cluttered, manually move them around using the line that will still point to the dot for ease in associating them with the right dot.

If you don’t want to label all of them, label a few outliers you know the audience would key in on.

What would you like changed? The only thing I couldn't really decide on was adding a trend-line or not.

I tried labeling each data-point with the corresponding State, but it looked extremely cluttered and hurt the readability.

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They also import a shitton of our "recycling" too. Which is then driven out into the country side and burnt on the side of the road.

Because it's cheaper than actually sorting and recycling it.

Oh interesting, I didn't know that.

I get that you needed a quick rebuttal to the other post this morning, but you could have put a sliver of TLC into this to make it more appealing and help us easily interpret the takeaway.

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Yeah. I think this research topic is still far from being settled. Just 5 years ago the understanding was that 10 rivers contributed almost all riverine plastic into the ocean but now the data is wildly different. It needs more research. My gut feeling is that Indonesia and China for example are underestimated.

I’m not surprised—Edward Blum also helped spearhead (along with others) Shelby County v. Holder in 2013 after not winning in 2009 for some utility district IIRC. He’s behind “Students for Fair Admissions.” He lost in 2016 in Abigail Fisher v. UT Austin IIRC, so 7 years later he’s trying again with Harvard and a FAR more conservative court, even when Scalia was still alive.

Maybe it's just me but I think when using 2d shapes, the area of the shape is more intuitive at communicating the data than the diameter/length. Here a country with 5 times more output look like it's 25 times more by area.

Interesting stuff though, thanks!

Correct, the US/China export goods and they get disposed of in other countries.

Not sure how that was unclear.

You can find something imperfect about any visualization (especially one that encompasses so many different measures) but damn it's refreshing to see something here that looks good and is reasonably informative

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Wtf is this graph how is this beautiful

Yeah - I was pretty surprised that there could be this much certainty in any court ruling this controversial, but it seems that the stance of each supreme court justice is well understood.

I haven't heard one person who really knows about the case who doesn't think SCOTUS is going to rule against Harvard and probably squash affirmative action entirely. So yeah, this rings true to me.

>Most plastic waste is traded within world regions, rather than between them

>Where does plastic waste flow across the world?

>Europe is the region that exports the most plastic, but it’s also the region that imports the most.

>This is true more generally. Most plastic is traded within a given region. European countries export most plastic to other European countries. Asian countries export most to other Asian countries.

>In the visualization, we see the flow of plastic across the world. On the left we have the exporters of plastic waste; on the right, we see where that plastic ends up. The height of each bar is proportional to the amount of plastic that is traded.

>Europe is the biggest exporter of plastic. But, it’s also the biggest importer. Many countries across Europe trade with one another. At the national level, Germany is the biggest exporter and importer – it trades different plastics with its neighbors including the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, and Switzerland.

>This is also true of Asia, where Japan is the biggest exporter to other countries in Asia.

https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade

Regions mainly trade waste within regions. The Philippines waste is mainly from Asian countries such as Japan.

Those plastics are mostly exported as part of products, not waste.