Everyone’s told plastic pollution is a “global” problem…
But the data say something very different.
Roughly 90–95% of ocean plastic comes from a handful of rivers... mostly in Asia and Africa. The Yangtze. Ganges. Mekong. Nile. Niger.
Not your grocery bag in Colorado.
Not your straw in D.C.
A small number of poorly managed waste systems are doing the overwhelming majority of the damage.
The UN isn’t structuring this like a solvable engineering problem... it’s structuring it like a permanent global revenue stream.
Because if you solve it quickly and directly…
there’s no need for decades of committees, funding mechanisms, and “frameworks.”