True or exaggerated? 95% of Ocean Plastic from 10 Rivers

| August 19, 2026

Have you seen this map of the 10 rivers in Asia and Africa that are responsible for 95% of the plastic polluting the world’s oceans … and is it true? The claim comes from a real 2017 study (Schmidt et al.). Researchers estimated that rivers carry 0.4–4 million tons of plastic to the sea each […]

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