Previous submissions from the time of the original publication:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15918984" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15918984</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15459894" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15459894</a>
What I find most interesting is that none of the top rivers are North American - which to me says that while the North American method of waste disposal is still not as efficient as Europe’s, it does seem to work.<p>I wonder what the consumption of plastics are in NA vs other industries.
Here's a link to the actual publication:
<a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b02368" rel="nofollow">https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.7b02368</a>