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<blockquote data-quote="LotusBud" data-source="post: 402148" data-attributes="member: 1123">A lot of trash ends up in the oceans off US coastlines, whether it is directly thrown there or not.&nbsp; I never said Asian countries shouldn't do something.&nbsp; Neither should the US act as if it has nothing to do with the patches.&nbsp; That's absurd.The U.S. generated a staggering 42 million metric tons of plastic waste in 2016 — more than any other country in the world, according to the analysis.Up to 2.2 million metric tons of this waste ended up in the ocean. If piled on the White House lawn, it “would soar as high as the Empire State Building,” said Leonard.A <a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768" target="_blank">previous study</a> by the same research group ranked the U.S. as the 20th-biggest contributor to ocean plastic, but they considered littering the sole source of this pollution. Including two other sources of pollution — illegal dumping and waste that’s shipped abroad for recycling, but ultimately ends up in the environment — the new study boosts the U.S. to third place for worst plastic-polluting nations.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health_us-among-top-contributors-ocean-plastic-pollution/6197943.html[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LotusBud, post: 402148, member: 1123"] A lot of trash ends up in the oceans off US coastlines, whether it is directly thrown there or not. I never said Asian countries shouldn't do something. Neither should the US act as if it has nothing to do with the patches. That's absurd. The U.S. generated a staggering 42 million metric tons of plastic waste in 2016 — more than any other country in the world, according to the analysis. Up to 2.2 million metric tons of this waste ended up in the ocean. If piled on the White House lawn, it “would soar as high as the Empire State Building,” said Leonard. A [URL='https://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768']previous study[/URL] by the same research group ranked the U.S. as the 20th-biggest contributor to ocean plastic, but they considered littering the sole source of this pollution. Including two other sources of pollution — illegal dumping and waste that’s shipped abroad for recycling, but ultimately ends up in the environment — the new study boosts the U.S. to third place for worst plastic-polluting nations. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health_us-among-top-contributors-ocean-plastic-pollution/6197943.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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