There’s some kind of problem going on here, sure. So let’s frame the problem in the narrowest possible way, so that changing anything seems insurmountably difficult.
I offer an alternate frame to this one: The fracking boom is making plastic even cheaper to produce, the petrochemical industry is building new plants, more capacity to make more plastic that will eventually end up in the water.
The way I see it, we don’t have a problem with “litter on the ground”, so much as we have a problem with an economic/political system unable to adapt to changes in the environment.
Address the issue with the political/economic system, and we’d be in a position to cope witgh this and hundreds of other, related problems.
