Saturday, October 19, 2019

China’s Rivers Are the Major Source of Plastic Entering the Oceans

Two workers clean up trash along the bank of the Yangtze River near the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, in central China's Hubei Province on Aug. 1, 2010. Layers of trash floating in the Yangtze River were threatening to jam China's massive Three Gorges hydroelectric dam, state media reported on Aug. 2. (China Out/STR/AFP/Getty Images)China’s Rivers Are the Major Source of Plastic Entering the Oceans
"...the “top ten” polluting rivers account for 88-95% of plastics that flow each year into the world’s oceans.
The six Chinese rivers on the “top ten” list—the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl, the Amur that borders Russia, and the headlands of the Mekong River—account for about 3.8 million tons, or almost half of the world’s plastic flow into the oceans...."
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