90% of Ocean Plastic Disaster Caused by Third World Pollution

90 percent of the plastic pollution in the world’s oceans – a disaster which threatens the entire earth’s eco-system – comes from the Third World, and specifically China, India, and Africa, according to a major study of pollution sources carried out by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ in Germany.

The study, titled “Export of Plastic Debris by Rivers into the Sea,” was prepared by two experts employed at the UFZ (which is funded by the German government as is its official advisor on environmental matters.

The report revealed that every year, “millions of tons of plastic debris ends up in the sea—a global environmental problem with unforeseeable ecological consequences.”

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