Living by the sea really bring it home to you how polluted our waters have become with waste.

@adders I was reading a piece about the 5 Gyre's recently and that just 10 rivers are responsible for over 90% of the plastic that reaches the oceans. The scale involved is truly shocking.

@colinwalker Most of what we get here is English Channel waste. We get some French packaging, for example.

@colinwalker @adders While that statistic is true, it also hides the fact that most developed countries ship their waste to countries where those rivers are to avoid environmental regulations in their own countries.