New study reveals United States a top source of plastic pollution in coastal environments

Science Daily Plastics & Pollution

New study reveals United States a top source of plastic pollution in coastal environments
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The new research challenges the once-held assumption that the United States is adequately "managing" -- that is, collecting and properly landfilling, recycling or otherwise containing -- its plastic waste. A previous study using 2010 data that did not account for plastic scrap exports had ranked the United States 20th, globally, in its contribution to ocean plastic pollution from mismanaged waste.

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