According to that map more plastic comes from Alaska than the whole of Canada, how can that be, there are far greater numbers of Canadians than Alaskans...
"Sigh".
What isn't apparent to many people is the US is one country. Alaska is not a separate country and is not counted separately.
The US is responsible for 77,000 out of the over 8,000,000 tons of ocean plastic generated each year.
We don't know how much plastic Alaska is responsible for. It is probably much less than Canada.
The CONUS is probably responsible for most of it.
Canada has only 1/10 of the US population. If they produce over 7,700 tons of plastic waste per year they produce more capita than the US.
The US has the third highest population on the planet and is the third largest country.
The US has 4.3% of the world population and produces less than 1% of the plastic waste.