Rivers
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Slat: 1% of rivers produce roughly 80% of global river plastic emissions
“And what we found is that just one percent of the world's rivers do, you know, roughly 80% of all the plastic emissions. So it's very concentrated, and mostly in, indeed, these, you know, big coastal cities in, in middle-income countries.”
Schneider: Historic US Rivers Were Naturally Filled With Beaver Dams and Logjams
“In the U.S., if you were to rewind the clock several hundred years, what you would have found in the U.S. Is a landscape full of rivers, full of obstructions, but those obstructions were things like naturally occurring log jams and beaver dams, and they could …”