sample garbage from 'green' 'progressive' terrorists

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https://www.afp.com/en/news/826/ocean-plastic-waste-probably-comes-ships-report-says-doc-1kv8e91

Sampling garbage...

Most of the plastic bottles washing up on the rocky shores of
Inaccessible Island, aptly named for its sheer cliffs rising from the
middle of the South Atlantic, probably come from Chinese merchant
ships, a study published this week said. From a report: The study
offers fresh evidence that the vast garbage patches floating in the
middle of oceans, which have sparked much consumer hand-wringing in
recent years, are less the product of people dumping single-use
plastics in waterways or on land, than they are the result of merchant
marine vessels tossing their waste overboard by the ton. The authors
of the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, or PNAS, collected thousands of pieces of waste during
visits to the tiny island in 1984, 2009 and again in 2018. The island
is located roughly midway between Argentina and South Africa in the
South Atlantic gyre, a vast whirlpool of currents that has created
what has come to be known as an oceanic garbage patch. While initial
inspections of the trash washing up on the island showed labels
indicating it had come from South America, some 2,000 miles (3,000
kilometers) to the west, by 2018 three-quarters of the garbage
appeared to originate from Asia, mostly China. Many of the plastic
bottles had been crushed with their tops screwed on tight, as is
customary on board ships to save space, said report author Peter Ryan,
director of the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology at the
University of Cape Town in South Africa.