Reply #10: Everything is dumped on the planet

[Warpy]

because we don't have a Mr. Fusion to send it out onto somebody else's planet. Everything dumped on land winds up washed into the ocean via rivers and streams.

The fish you're talking about are fresh water fish that have been poisoned by pesticides, herbicide, chemical fertilizers, and other agricultural runoff. Ocean fish are full of PCB and PBB, even around Antarctica. Those poisons are not concentrated in human urine and feces but were dumped on land and washed into the oceans.

Human waste is shockingly clean in comparison to what's going through our rivers and streams, even after a few decades of trying to clean some of them up. We simply exported the dumping along with the factories that did it, meaning most of the world's waterways are now full of chemicals and all of those are going into the oceans.

Dumping a sailboat holding tank far offshore is not going to hurt anyone. Dumping it on land will only delay it going into the ocean, not prevent it.