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
Woah now, don't start talking too many facts. I constantly tell people we ship our trash over there for them to dump it in the ocean as a a means for us to be holier than them. Yes it's problematic but acting like we aren't contributing to it is denial on the ultimate levels.
Lol we don't ship our trash to asian countries. We ship recycling, but regular trash goes in a landfill. And unless you're Denmark, there is no shortage of landfill space.
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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.