tokens: In 2018 approximate 513 million tonnes of plastics wind up in the oceans every year out of which the 83,1 % is from the following 20 countries : China is the most mismanaged plastic waste polluter leaving in the sea the 27.7 % of the world total , second Indonesia with the 10.1 % , third Philippines with 5.9 % , fourth Vietnam with 5.8 % , fifth Sri Lanka 5.0 % , sixth Thailand with 3.2 % , seventh Egypt with 3.0 % , eighth Malaysia with 2.9 % , ninth Nigeria with 2.7 % , tenth Bangladesh with 2.5 % , eleventh South Africa with 2.0 % , twelfth India with 1.9 % , thirteenth Algeria with 1.6 % , fourteenth Turkey with 1.5 % , fifteenth Pakistan with 1.5 % , sixteenth Brazil with 1.5 % , seventeenth Myanmar with 1.4 % , eighteenth Morocco with 1.0 % , nineteenth North Korea with 1.0 % , twentieth United States with 0.9 % .