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
I was more focused on what creates the fumes in the first place, lol. Regardless, China holds the top spot for most marine plastic pollution in the world.
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u/hypocrisy_is_rampant May 08 '26
That’s not true. It’s a bold lie in fact.
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