Time to cancel the Philippines.

Plumes of WHAT? The main outputs of burning vinyl chloride are CO2 (of which there are plumes all over the place coming from any coal powerplant for example, all the time), and hydrochloric acid, which will fall out of a plume as acid rain as soon as it hits clouds of water (is that being accounted for here? Maybe yes since some of the plumes just suddenly disappear)

Or if something else, what?

And if you're referring to the non-burning portions of chemicals, then surely those have a completely different dispersal than the tall plume of hot combustion products going way up in the sky, and would have very different graphing?

Wasn't it recently discovered that China was lying about its GDP growth numbers for the past 10 years or so and that their economy is actually still far off from the US?

But how beautiful is the infographic!

I think we’re saying the same thing, I agree with everything you said above.

Bye bye New York’s water shed

Welp. I know my own country shipped boat loads there even after the Philippine government said not to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Philippines_waste_dispute

Adding to this, if you’re not scaling for area, a line/bar would make more sense. For this chart, the circle (scaled properly for area) seems like the right choice.

Can we have the information visualized by height? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian_businesspeople_(2022%E2%80%932023)

People are mobilized into the Russian army not into Wagner group.

They still are, they simply ship their plastic to the Philippines who then dump it. Where do you think the Philippines is getting like 20x more plastic than they themselves produce to dump?

They simply ship their plastics to the Philippines who then dump it. Bans make perfectly good sense, since they reduce the plastic shipped abroad and then subsequently dumped.

Wagner group?

It's all involved parties' fault, since the sellers obviously know what's going on too.

Don’t think those fall into paramilitary category

That's fair, ive misread the graphic.

Ah well skunked again.

A lot of the plastic going into the ocean from Asia was shipped there from the U.S. Necessarily, since the amount produced in the worst datapoint here (Philippines) isn't even as high as what they dump

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1. The problem with plastic is not exclusively ocean-trash related

2. A lot of the plastic "from Asia" is shipped there from the West because they don't know what to do with it, then the people they ship it to in Asia sometimes dump it in the ocean. So a lot of that is functionally still from the West

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Aren't there many different chemicals with different toxic threshold limit values? Those should be plotted separately.

Russia mobilized extra 250k just a few months ago.

What's up with Bangladesh?

United Kingdom..do better. We shouldn't even be on this list.