Comment by wqaatwt

Obviously I implicitly meant all single use plastics. But random people littering is not even remotely the main source.

Poor and unregulated waste management is. Of course the fact that a lot of western countries were and still are exporting their plastic waste to poorer countries where they somehow end up in rivers and oceans.

However there is no inherent reason why plastic straws or anything else inherently have to be dumped into oceans.

Of course silly token measures are much easier than actually regulating the global fishing industry..