Plastic Ocean: Study Names Worst Polluters

Friday, 13 February 2015
Anna Salleh

While China is listed as the top polluter, Australian litterbugs are responsible for 13,888 tonnes of plastic getting into the ocean a year. (Reuters: China Daily China Daily Information Corp)

A new study has ranked the top 20 plastic polluters and found that most of the plastic entering into the ocean comes from China.

Up to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic waste is washed into the ocean each year, according to the research published today in the journal Science.

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