But why buy someone else's garbage in the first place if there is no real infrastructure in place to handle it properly? If they're overwhelmed, they could say no more at any time.

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One thing I don’t like about these stats is that it seems to want people to conclude direct cause and effect when everything (politics, policies, economics, human behaviors, etc.) are so complicated and intertwined, not to mention the effect of governmental policies is often delayed for years before it is known.

Stupidity abounds and will be our downfall. Let's just sweep our trash under the rug (sell to 3rd world countries) and wash our hands of any responsibility.

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India is easily spotted as the second biggest in total waste put in ocean (size of the dark red ball) but because of its massive population it is lower per capita (height of the spike) kind of a confusing infographic, but interesting data.

Have you ever heart a parent saying their kid is ugly? Why would the op admit that this diagram is ugly and useless?

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Australia has less plastic in the ocean than some landlocked countries, but we still only have paper straws

While depressing, you chose a paw-sitively adorable way to show the numbers.

As long as he draws breath he can cause harm.

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Looks like a shotgun blast at 40%

Yeah Wagner is a paramilitary group but the 250k mobilized is not a part of Wagner was my whole point.

Actually a lot of recycable materials from Western Europe is processed in Eastern countries of the European Union like Poland.

Reading a lot of the names is hard since half of them are upside down. I also have to really zoom in to be able to read any of the countries, which isn't great design either. I would rather have maybe just the top 20, plus a few additional notable countries with a large population.

Also, the total plastic waste is hard to compare across countries given the circular nature of the presentation which is compounded by using the area of a circle to show total volume, so it just clutters up space without really adding much in my opinion.

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From a distance though, and without trying to really get any information from the plot, it is very pretty!

Looks like 95% of ocean plastic is from South East Asia.

I meant, isn’t Wagner group a paramilitary force?

Trump inherited a robust growing economy and managed to destroy it along with nearly every agency. He replaced professionals and experts with realtors and dog groomers, installed toadies or donors and let his incompetent children run major offices. His lack of interest in reading or even caring to listen was well documented by former staff.

What is surprising is how few of these metrics were negatively impacted by his decimation of the executive branch.

No, they do it because there's money to be made from it. In a sense, you could say they're forced into it by the global economy, although it's more like an emergent behavior in response to economic factors rather than true coercion.

Sort of, they're exported mostly as packaging and other short term uses. I keep track of my plastic waste and it's at least 90% packaging, if not more, and that's with me being conscious and trying to reduce it.

Where are the international sea spills? A lot of plastic is simply old nets from fisher ships or spills from container ships.

So essentially a handful of mostly rich countries generate a ton of plastic waste, then they ship it to SE Asia where it gets dumped into the ocean

The length of the petals is ocean waste per capita. The size of the circles is total.

The US has extensive anti-littering campaigns so the vast majority of our waste never touches an ocean.

You're misreading it. The total plastic waste circle and the plastic waste into oceans circle have different scales, so even though the total plastic waste circle is smaller for the philippines, it's still about 1 million tonnes while the plastic waste into oceans circle is amount 500k tonnes.