Quite a lot of the ocean plastic is either fishing gear or dumped from ships, an...

pjc50 on July 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

Quite a lot of the ocean plastic is either fishing gear or dumped from ships, and much of the rest is indeed from countries with a culture of littering in the river and no public waste disposal infrastructure to counter that.