Asia and Africa were responsible for 80% of plastic at the ocean

About 2,7 million tons of plastic annually get to oceans. New research showed that the most part of this quantity arrives from 1656 rivers Asia and Africa. To cope with large-scale plastic pollution of oceans, scientists need to understand garbage sources. But not everything is so simple... Results of new work disprove the previous researches in which it was supposed that 90% of oceanic plastic are necessary on only 10 large river systems. As it appeared, their number in 100 times more! The international group of scientists, having analysed data, found out that to 80% of all plastic...