Three-fourths of waste in Jakarta’s notoriously polluted rivers is plastic

2022-08-29 15:05
JAKARTA — The Citarum River that skirts the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, is infamous as the most polluted river on Earth. The rivers inside Jakarta aren’t in much better state, either, with a new study showing that most of the waste collected from the city’s rivers is plastic. Plastic accounted for 74% and 87% of the […]