The push for electric cars is pretty ignorant. People brought up the production, roads, power, ect of producing and running these vehicles. We will have dumps full of batteries. I'm sure that will be lovely. I'm all for environment friendly tech and incentives for such tech, but we are energy independent, with affordable energy, so maybe we could make fossil fuels cleaner and worry about the plastic in the oceans.
May I point out the source of plastics in the oceans?
“90% of plastic polluting our oceans comes from just 10 rivers
More than 8 million tons of it ends up in the ocean every year. If we continue to pollute at this rate, there will be
more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050.
But where does all this plastic waste come from?
Most of it is washed into the ocean by rivers. And 90% of it comes from just 10 of them, according to a study.
Rivers of plastic
By analyzing the waste found in the rivers and surrounding landscape, researchers were able to estimate that
just 10 river systems carry 90% of the plastic that ends up in the ocean.
Eight of them are in Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa – the Nile and the Niger.
90% of plastic polluting our oceans comes from just 10 rivers