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Jordan

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Italy

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Palestine

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Panama

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Jamaica Puerto Rico

Trinidad and Tobago

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0 250 500MilesEl Salvador

Belize

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*Symbols scaled the same as central map

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BarbadosAruba

Guatemala

St Kitts and Nevis

Monserrat

*Symbols scaled the same as central map

Iran

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LibyaEgypt

Saudi Arabia

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Turkey

Spain

France

Ukraine

Poland

Syria

Italy

Germany

Morocco

Romania

Tunisia Greece

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Panama

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Dominican Rep.

Jamaica Puerto Rico

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Cayman Is.Anguilla

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El Salvador

Belize

Turks and Caicos

*Symbols scaled the same as central map

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British Virgin Is.

BarbadosAruba

Guatemala

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Bermuda

Brazil

Indonesia

BruneiSingapore

São Tomé and Principe

Russia

Canada

China

Australia

Greenland

India

United States of America

Argentina

Mexico

Sudan

PeruAngola

Nigeria

Chile

Dem. Rep.Congo

South Africa

Pakistan

Namibia

Mauritania

Tanzania

Kenya

Myanmar

Yemen

Mozambique

Thailand

Somalia

Oman

Congo

Japan

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Cameroon

Vietnam

Gabon

Ghana

Guinea

Ecuador

Uruguay

Guyana

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Senegal

PapuaNew Guinea

Benin

Eritrea

New Zealand

Cambodia

North Korea

Suriname

Malaysia

Liberia

Bangladesh

Togo

South Korea

Sri Lanka

Taiwan

Fiji

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Eq. Guinea

Guinea-BissauPhilippines

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Samoa

Mauritius

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Guam

Hong Kong

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Tonga

Seychelles

St. Pierre and Miquelon

Micronesia

N. Mariana Is.

Saint Helena

Nauru

Maldives

Norfolk Island

KiribatiPalau

Marshall Is.

French Polynesia

Sierra Leone

Iceland

Faroe Is.

Norway

Sweden

Finland

USA

Waste Mismanaged Per Peron/kg/day

0-0.010.02-0.04

0.05-0.070.08-0.15

0.16-0.3

Plastic Waste GeneratedPer Person/kg/day

0.1 - 1.01.1 - 1.5

1.6 - 2.0

2.1 - 4.0

4.1 - 14.4

Mean Waste Generation = 1.64

Author:India Forbes-Leith Projection: World Patterson. CentralMeridian 30°

Europe Inset: Albers Equal Area Conic Standard Parallels 27° and 52° Central Meridian 22°

Central American Inset: Albers Equal Area Conic Standard Parallels 7° and 23° Central Meridian 73°

Data Source: Plastic ourworldindata.org. Plastic PollutionTheoceancleanup.com Natural Earth ESRI Data Bank

Jensks Natural Classificaton Scheme

0 1,000 2,000Miles

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: 1.6 million square kilometers

Packaging accounts for 46% of Plastic UsedIn 2015 only 20% of Plastic Waste was Recycled

Asia Accounts for 86% of the River Plastic Inputs to the Ocean

2 .41mi l l ion tonnes of p las t ic enter the ocean each year f rom r ivers We can a l l make a d i f ference

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From Land to OceanThe Plastic Problem