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90 per cent of global plastic waste comes from just 10 rivers in Asia and Africa
Daily Mail Australia ^
| 2 July 2018
| Gavin Butler
Posted on 07/02/2018 11:48:19 AM PDT by Sergio
Critics of Australian supermarkets' plastic bag ban continue to drum up protest, as it is revealed that 90 per cent of the world's plastic waste comes from just 10 rivers in Asia and Africa.
The river systems that carry the most waste into the ocean include the Amur, Ganges, Hai, Indus, Mekong, Pearl, Yangtze and Yellow Delta in Asia, as well as the Niger and Nile in Africa, a research paper has revealed. (trunc)
The study, carried out by Germany's Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, suggests that the most effective way of reducing the amount of plastic in the world's oceans is by addressing the sources of pollution along such waterways as these.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; asia; climatechange; hoax; plastic; pollution
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But somehow it's all our (USA) fault.
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:48:20 AM PDT
by
Sergio
To: Sergio
When your only infrastructure is the river, you use it.
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:51:08 AM PDT
by
Kozy
(new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
To: Sergio
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:51:24 AM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
To: Sergio
I was just about to post the same thing ... word for word.
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:52:28 AM PDT
by
al_c
(https://conventionofstates.com)
To: Sergio
“Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it”. George Carlin
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:53:13 AM PDT
by
gathersnomoss
(Regressive Swamp Dwellers)
To: Sergio
Indonesians throw everything on the ground and their coast are awash with plastic.
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:54:25 AM PDT
by
the_daug
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Note to self...stay out of the Ganges.
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:55:41 AM PDT
by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
To: Sergio
...the most effective way of reducing the amount of plastic in the world's oceans is by addressing the sources of pollution along such waterways as these. Maybe Thanos was on to something...
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:56:05 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: Sergio
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:56:57 AM PDT
by
rfp1234
(I have already previewed this composition.)
To: Sergio
We are all subject to the enviros religion.
It’s their religion. These bans are a penance they believe in and force on everyone.
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:58:12 AM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Sergio
It’s the plastic straws that are apparently to blame for everthing. Well that and PDJT.
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:58:44 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: gathersnomoss
“Why are we here?”
“Plastic, A-Hole!”
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posted on
07/02/2018 11:58:56 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Sergio
Is Algore still standing in De Nile?
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:00:08 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: Sergio
And 3% comes from Michael Moore.
To: Sergio
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:03:56 PM PDT
by
Pajamajan
( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Sergio
One day, someone will seriously promote the idea of sending a few tons of this plastic waste into Outer Space. Maybe into the Stratosphere, far out enough not to interfere with any satellites. After people stop laughing at the idea, it may be a solution, albeit not a popular one.
This present pace of plastic waste cannot continue without waterways being affected. I’m not too big on the ecology or matters of man-caused pollution, but this is a growing problem. Even China has begun to accept less of the world’s rubbish.
To: Governor Dinwiddie
First in...!
All cultures are equal.
(I’ve linked this before - India is, well, nevermind)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
I dared and wish I hadn’t.
I didn’t want lunch anyway.
Or dinner.
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:06:07 PM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: Sergio
Makes me feel a little better, but this stuff is coming in with the tide as far away as Scotland
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posted on
07/02/2018 12:10:58 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
(Remember the Wall this Fall - VOTE !!!)
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