These five countries are responsible for up to 60 percent of the plastic in the ocean

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By Suzanne JacobsJan 15, 2016, 5:48 pm101 pts
There’s a veritable shit ton of plastic floating around in the world’s oceans — between 10 and 30 billion pounds of it, to be imprecise — and more than half of it comes from just five countries. Those countries are China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, according to a report from…

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