The first worldwide estimate of where the ocean's massive amounts of plastic garbage comes from points at China and developing economies in Asia.

The study, published online on Friday in the journal Science, estimates that China's heavily coastal population contributes 1.3 million to 3.5 million metric tons of plastic to the world's oceans each year, largely from mismanaged waste.

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