Linkage: 31 October, 2017 #TheTriggering
We keep hearing all the time about the mountains of plastic that flow into the oceans from our disgusting and polluted rivers. This prompts politicians to virtue signal by banning plastic bags, encouraged no doubt by companies that make plastic bags that want to get paid more for their product. So here are the top 10 rivers in the world responsible for such pollution. Can any of you guess where they may be? Their paper, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, calculates that rivers contribute between 410,000 and 4 million tonnes a year to oceanic plastic debris, with … Continue reading →