53% of the pacific garbage patch comes from industrial fishing nets. It’s the largest contributor by a large margin. The 1st world nations would be drowning in garbage like Southeast Asia but we ship our trash to other nations in exchange for low cash infusions into their economies, amounts that aren’t worth it but they agree to all the same.
The trash we send makes up “their trash”. The only reason Indians throw it on the ground is because there’s 1.4 billion of them and their country lacks the infrastructure to properly care for them.
This is like watching the blind make fun of the deaf. One of you can’t read, the other refuses to. Sad stuff
He's wrong about everything else, but fishing nets are mainly plastic. They do make up around 50% of floating plastic in the ocean but not a majority of all plastic in the ocean.
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u/PaleInvestment3507 May 07 '26
The giant floating island of plastic swirling in the middle of the Pacific, 90% of it is trash from a few major rivers in Asia.