Holy shit won't you be surprised by our extensive use of depleted uranium munitions like every round leaving the main gun on an A-10. Or the SMAW-NE. War is an ugly business. SMAW-NE was cool b/c the munition causes an implosion immediately prior to detonation. A traditional explosive round blows outward killing you. The implosion caused by these rounds immediately collapse the enemies lungs flat prior to detonation rendering a target in vicinity instantly incapacitated regardless of the following blast damage. It's the little shit that's really neat about all this. DU used in US munitions has 60% of the radioactivity of natural uranium. I've also heard a form of it is present in some tank armor making much of the local waste we leave that locals harvest for scrap metal potentially cancerous. Even more interesting check out the rise in cancer rates among Iraqi children in proximation to locations where DU was used. The spike in rates is nasty. "water crisis" I'm sure there's some nasty shit in the water table surrounding any major base. Thank goodness we have such great logistics in place to ship it from elsewhere as needed. Too bad the govt is more likely to let soldiers on the ground drink the nasty shit if the side effects are years away. Lotta veterans got fucked w/ agent orange during vietnam as well. First the VA only helped ground troops but a lot of Naval service members had the same results from proximity and handling of those munitions. They had no help at all for way too long. It's the same, freaking out about a symptom but not recognizing it's source as they're necessary for a battlefield advantage. Apologies I misremembered the stats in a different comment. It's 90% of ocean plastic from 10 rivers in Africa and Asia. Surely though it's those dastardly recyclable plastic straws in the hands of Americans and not the corporations that provide these countries shops w/ non recyclable plastic shopping bags and packaging, surely it's not these specific regions and countries fault b/c of their improper waste management. Nah... it wypipo... https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahleung/2018/04/21/five-asian-countries-dump-more-plastic-than-anyone-else-combined-how-you-can-help/#11807c3c1234 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluting-our-oceans-comes-from-just-10-rivers/