Three-fourths of waste in Jakarta’s notoriously polluted rivers is plastic

Mongabay
Aug 29, 2022, 3:05 pm186 pts
JAKARTA — The Citarum River that skirts the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, is infamous as the most polluted river on Earth. The rivers inside Jakarta aren’t in much better state, either, with a new study showing that most of the waste collected from the city’s rivers is plastic. Plastic accounted for 74%…

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