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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: How does so much plastic actually make its way all the way into our oceans?
gpt
Most plastic ends up in landfills or in incinirators. There are orders of magnitude difference. So if you were to throw away an entire bin of compacted plastic waste but accidentally a single plastic bag gets caught in the wind and some how ends up getting washed out into the ocean you will still contribute more to the plastic ocean waste then the average human. The problem is that there are lots of humans and we produce huge amounts of waste. And plastic does not disappear so the trash in the oceans just accumulate.

It is also worth mentioning that a lot of the plastic waste in the oceans are from boats. A lot of fishing equipment is made of plastics and when a fishing net snaggs the fishermen often just cut it and leave it in the ocean. But there are also lots of plastic bags, food containers, plastic bottles, etc.