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95% of plastic polluting world's oceans comes from just 10 rivers
wnd.com ^ | 4/19/2018 | unk

Posted on 04/20/2018 6:18:06 AM PDT by rktman

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Hmmm. From the dailymail UK but the date is last Oct. Anyway guess some folks don't much care what green piece and erf first say. So, in order to keep up, guess we need to toss some more plastic into the Mississippi. The list:

Yangtze East China Sea Asia

Indus Arabian Sea Asia

Yellow River Yellow Sea Asia

Hai He Yellow Sea Asia

Nile Mediterranean Africa

Ganges Bay of Bengal Asia

Pearl River South China Sea Asia

Amur Sea of Okhotsk Asia

Niger Gulf of Guinea Africa

Mekong South China Sea Asia

1 posted on 04/20/2018 6:18:06 AM PDT by rktman
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Link to orginal in the dailymail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4970214/95-plastic-oceans-comes-just-TEN-rivers.html


2 posted on 04/20/2018 6:18:36 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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No longer a problem:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/16/scientists-accidentally-create-mutant-enzyme-that-eats-plastic-bottles


3 posted on 04/20/2018 6:19:16 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: rktman

Well ... would it help if we de-industrialize America and tax ourselves into oblivion? Because I suspect that’s going to be the suggested solution.


4 posted on 04/20/2018 6:21:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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Until mutant enzyme starts killing something.


5 posted on 04/20/2018 6:21:28 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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So we need to send some enzymes to the plastic patch in the Pacific then? Still waiting for the pictures of it from the ISS. Or does the ISS NOT pass over it ever. Someplace I saw that it’s bigger than Texas so it’d be hard to miss right?


6 posted on 04/20/2018 6:22:55 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Lol! My leftie daughter just gave me a lecture on how horrible it was that Americans use plastic straws, because of the massive damage they do to the oceans. I told her I suspected they were a relatively minor contributor. Turns out dumb old dad was probably right.


7 posted on 04/20/2018 6:23:11 AM PDT by IronJack (A)
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Fake news. EVERYONE knows that the U.S. and especially, White, Christian Men are to blame for the plastics pollution.

Nice try science, you can't fool "social justice"...

8 posted on 04/20/2018 6:23:44 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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Always with the smart aleck comments? LOL! Kids. What don’t they know?


9 posted on 04/20/2018 6:24:14 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Wait...wait “Pruitt...flew home in...coach-class seat.”

I wont’ call it “fake news” but this story seems like a lot of fluff wrapped around a very important message — Scott Pruitt likes Coach Class! First Class Hotels and Flights? It’s my secretaries fault!! Don’t Fire me! It’s (sob) not my fault!!


10 posted on 04/20/2018 6:24:52 AM PDT by CharleysPride (The Federal Jihad against Marijuana is over. Thank you, President Trump.)
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I think it is amazing that the Amazon is NOT in the top ten.
Doesn’t the Amazon drain more land mass then any other river?


11 posted on 04/20/2018 6:24:53 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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Damn Americans!!


12 posted on 04/20/2018 6:25:43 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Bryanw92

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316204/


13 posted on 04/20/2018 6:27:00 AM PDT by BipolarBob (All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.)
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Nope, nope.....not an East River nor a Cuyahoga nor a Charles in the bunch.


14 posted on 04/20/2018 6:28:27 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“Until mutant enzyme starts killing something.”

Ice-9?


15 posted on 04/20/2018 6:29:28 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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Asia and Africa are full of precious minorities. We should not criticize them! Instead, we should raise taxes on Americans to pay for the cleanup of the oceans because their culture is the same as ours...if not superior!
16 posted on 04/20/2018 6:29:48 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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I.J., send her the article. My sympathies for the liberal daughter, we have two nieces like that.


17 posted on 04/20/2018 6:31:50 AM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump.)
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But...but...ALL pollution & global warming across the GLOBE is America’s fault! We all KNOW that!

Hand over the cash, Suckers!


18 posted on 04/20/2018 6:33:24 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Delta 21

Amazing where all of the “top 10 polluting rivers” are: not Westernized countries.


19 posted on 04/20/2018 6:33:43 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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Ganges Bay of Bengal Asia

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Don’t Hindu’s have to swim in the Ganges as a form of religious purification or something of that nature?


20 posted on 04/20/2018 6:34:11 AM PDT by z3n
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