Wave After Wave of Garbage Hits the Dominican Republic
I'm curious. Quotes from the article:<p>--<p>“It happens pretty much all the time if there is a strong rainfall or a storm,”<p>The phenomenon is not confined to the Dominican Republic, he said, and can be seen in many developing nations with a coastline. “Everybody uses the rivers and the beaches as dump sites.”
--<p>So we're being told that ocean's plastic garbage patch is somehow made out of the contents of landfills around the globe (and western countries) making it into the ocean with rain water. To anyone who has seen a landfill in real life that looks wildly improbable, except for a very minuscule amount of material.<p>I feel like developing countries using ocean as a waste dump is much more likely to be the true cause of the garbage patch.