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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[...] the next you see whole rivers covered in plastic waste flowing out into the ocean from certain countries.

Which is why they're working on exactly that

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Same issue though; it shouldn't end up in the rivers either. The rivers were just an example in relation to the ocean patches specifically. Plastics shouldn't end up in the environment at all. Catching it a step earlier, is still treating the symptom instead of the cause.