Using Oceans As Toilets. Plastic Pollution

Billions of people in developing countries use plastic daily, and live in areas that completely lack waste management. Establishing universal waste management is a battle that no one is fighting. Other than a lot of talk about plastic pollution and some actions that accomplish little to nothing, there is no serious effort to establish universal waste management.  Every single day, millions of kilos of plastic trash are added to rivers and oceans because billions of people use plastic daily and completely lack waste management services to properly collect and dispose of their plastic trash and other harmful waste. 

Proper waste management in developing countries will lift many people out of poverty from all the jobs that will be created, and it will stop the plastic pollution nightmare. People need to be employed to remove plastic trash already in the environment, and people need to be employed to be part of waste management systems that properly collect and dispose of plastic trash so that new plastic trash does not keep pouring into rivers, oceans and more.  

The oceans are used as toilets, seen as the cheap way to dispose of plastic trash and other harmful waste.  

The advocacy and funding needed for universal proper waste management is shamefully absent. The short sightedness, the recklessness in choosing the oceans to be toilets instead of properly collecting and removing plastic waste and other harmful waste will one day be fully realized. But by then, it will be too late.