Bangladesh has ranked 10th in polluting the world’s oceans, says a recent study.
The South Asian country produced 0.80 million tonnes of mismanaged plastic waste with 0.31 million tonnes of it ended up in the oceans, reports the Statista Portal.
A team of researchers in the United States and Australia analysed plastic waste levels in the world's oceans.
Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia, led the study, which was originally published on sciencemag.org.
China is the top source of plastic bottles, bags and other rubbish clogging up global sea lanes, followed by Indonesia.
These two Asian countries account for more than a third of plastic accumulation in global waters, according to the report.
In 2010, China dumped 8.8 million tonnes of mismanaged plastic waste with an estimated 3.53 million tonnes of it ended up in the ocean.
Indonesia dumped a total of 3.2 million tonnes of mismanaged plastic waste and 1.29 million tonnes became marine plastic debris.
These countries are followed by Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Thailand, ranked by the amount of plastic waste they dump in the oceans.
India came out at 12th position with 0.60 million metric tons of plastic waste dumped in the oceans, while Pakistan is ranked at 15 position by dumping 0.48 million metric tons of plastic the same year.
The United States is also guilty of polluting oceans with plastic, but at a much lower level than China. Annually, 0.11 million metric tons of waterborne plastic garbage comes from the United States.