The plastic pollution in the oceans is not caused by the U.S. It is caused by plastic reprocessing centers dumping their excess plastic in the ocean. We should reprocess our recycled plastic in the U.S. rather than rely on outsourced recyclers mishandling plastic because of no regulations in these countries.
Didn’t China stop taking our recyclables because their rising wages made it uneconomic to process the stuff? I’ve read a lot of the US stuff is going right to the landfills now.