“For decades, we’ve been throwing just about whatever we wanted — wire hangers and pizza boxes and ketchup bottles and yogurt containers — into the bin and sending it to China, where low-paid workers sorted through it and cleaned it up.”
I know the left believes this CRAP, but, as others have said, it just gets dumped in the ocean, particularly the plastics, which is why there is the absolutely huge plastic garbage pile floating in the Pacific. I think even China got sick of that mess and won’t let us keep contributing to it (even if indirectly, by having the Chinese do the dumping). I’m thinking it was starting to interfere with the operations of their navy vessels.
About 95% of the plastics floating in the oceans come from Africa, India & China,