Millions of tiny plastic balls have been conquering the beaches of Galicia for two months. Serious environmental damage, as far as we know, from a cargo ship that lost the material in Portuguese waters. So the pellet balls, carried away by the current, began to appear in large quantities on the Spanish coast. Environmental associations […]
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Millions of lowercase letters plastic balls have been invading the beaches for two months Galicia. Serious damage to the environment, as far as we know, from one Cargo ship which lost the material in Portuguese waters. The spheres of pellets So, carried away by the current, they began to appear in large numbers on the Spanish coast.
Environmental groups brought this to lifealarm Due to the presence of this substance, hundreds of people, armed with kitchen sieves, sieves and improvised grills, have gone to the coast since last Saturday to sift the sand and filter the water from the shore.
Many beaches are affected by this firmly Occurrence of the material: Vigo, Pontevedra, Arousa, Muros, Noia, La Coruña and Ferrol and, according to reports from environmental associations, the affected area is expanding. It appears this is not the first time these plastic pellets have washed ashore. Conversely, the loss of material from ships during storms would be a recurring problem.
This last episode was also a reason for political conflict between the People's Partywhich leads the region, and the socialist party, in the government in Spain. The regional council and the government have exchanged mutual accusations in action, with a view to the elections scheduled for January 18th. The region refused to raise the alert level to level 2, as requested by the central government, in order to intervene. The first vice president and councilor for regional environment, Angeles Vazquezsaid the pellets that flooded the beaches were neither one nor the other poisonous neither dangerous.
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