Ganga, Yangtze River are the Most Polluting River In The World

New Delhi, June 09: The Yangtze River in China the world's third-longest river topped the list, dumping some 330,000 tons of plastic into the East China Sea.

The Indian River Ganga has been found to be the second-most polluting river in the world, discharging 115,000 tons of plastic each year, as per a recent study.

The researchers at The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch foundation developing new technologies for ridding the oceans of plastic, found that rivers carry an estimated 1.15-2.41 million tons of plastic into the sea every year. That means we'd require between 48,000 to over 100,000 dump trucks to remove all the trash from the ocean.

The plastic that's dumped in the rivers ends up in the world's oceans, becoming a major source of marine pollution. And Asian countries are are the biggest contributors when it comes to polluting our waterways.

The study added that two-thirds of the pollution come from the 20 most polluting rivers, with the majority of them in Asia.

"Most of this river plastic input is coming from Asia, which emphasizes the need to focus on monitoring and mitigation efforts in Asian countries with rapid economic development and poor waste management," the researchers said.