It's called fashion, look it up. All jokes aside yes there are tons of trash across the ocean and Asian countries. Pollution in that region is horrendous, the locals have little to no sense of hygiene and lots of factory waste is thrown out without a single care. Granted other countries have similar faults as well. I believe people just don't know what to do with the trash, with the amount accumulated over years there isn't a lot of room to place them in. We can't burn it (not to my short knowledge) we can't bury it, we can't send it to space. What can we do?
We can't place the blame on just the Asian countries, a lot of the trash spread by them is shipped there by more developed countries that want the trash taken off of their hands. Currently, we have to stop producing more plastic, recycle what we have, and regulate the quality of any plastics produced in order to reduce microplastics.
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