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Global collection day against plastic waste and microplastics in the sea

2022-09-18T18:07:31.186Z


For more than 30 years, volunteers have been clearing trash from beaches around the world on the third weekend in September. The problem hasn't gotten any smaller since then. On the contrary.


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Collecting plastic in Barcelona, ​​collecting plastic in the Philippines, collecting plastic in Venezuela.

All over the world, thousands of people took up their garbage bags over the weekend to clean beaches and free them from washed-up garbage.

The "International Coastal Cleanup Day" is a worldwide day of action to clean up coastlines and takes place every year on the third weekend in September.

Pedro Jose Rondon, diver and environmentalist


»On this day, the whole world cleans up.

There are volunteers, divers, free divers... And all those who have nothing to do with the sea are mainly involved in the collection of waste on land.

Today we are working on collecting not only large pieces of waste, but also microplastics.

A phenomenon that is quietly polluting the planet.«

But not only plastic waste is a problem for the seas and the animals that live in them.

Pedro Jose Rondon, diver and environmentalist


»We find nets in which turtles are trapped or stranded.

Large fish with no commercial value will also get stuck in these traps.

Mammals get stuck in tires and in some metal parts.

We're working on collecting and removing all of that today."

In the Philippines, the initiative has a special character.

According to a new data survey, the island state is responsible for the largest proportion of plastic waste in the oceans worldwide.

36 percent of the global plastic waste in the oceans originally comes from here.

Janet Panganiban, Volunteer


»We need to do this clean up of our environment and stop people from throwing garbage into the sea.«

Kendrick Lopez, Student


"This initiative will help improve the situation here on Manila Bay so that tourists and visitors can see the beauty of the Bay."

Environmental organizations criticize that the laws against environmental pollution are too weak worldwide and violations are punished too little.

And that despite the fact that marine conservationists had already launched the "International Coastal Cleanup Day" in 1986.

Source: spiegel

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