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LESS trash? There is a patch of floating plastic in the Pacific Ocean about the size of Oklahoma and it is getting bigger.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/10/05/great-pacific-garbage-patch-is-a-myth-warn-experts-as-survey-sho/

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The only reason rivers are cleaner is because the steel industry and others who have dumped $hit into those rivers have shut down or reduced production.
Nope. The original EPA requirements from the early 1970's did wonders. Just doing tertiary water treatment means we're not dumping billions of tons per year of poop into the water ways.

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Whether you believe global warming is a thing or not, the krap that they say is causing it is ruining the atmosphere. Many think of the atmosphere as a HUGE bubble of air surrounding the planet. Not quite. Try this, the next time you eat an apple, slice it in half, look at the skin of the apple. That's relatively how thick the atmosphere is around the planet.
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