Chinese ships dump so much human waste into the ocean, you can see it from space

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@blackanvil

Everybody does it. Pretty much major city near a convenient body of water uses a CSO (combined Sewage Overflow) system to handle overload during heavy rains, which means the sewers overflow and run into the sea so they don’t flood out the waste processing plants.

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