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throwaway_201401 t1_j8rrd1u wrote

Fake news! We all know America is the worst ever at everything.

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KCPR13 t1_j8s9n5k wrote

No, I live in Europe and we are constantly bombed with news about how much we pollute the fucking world but no single word about Asia or billionaires. So we are the worst and you are second after us because America is sometimes mentioned.

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jmlinden7 t1_j8t1jbt wrote

The length of the petals is ocean waste per capita. The size of the circles is total.

The US has extensive anti-littering campaigns so the vast majority of our waste never touches an ocean.

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crimeo t1_j8sxhv7 wrote

They still are, they simply ship their plastic to the Philippines who then dump it. Where do you think the Philippines is getting like 20x more plastic than they themselves produce to dump?

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