Plastic bags and bottles, food packaging, packaging and much more. This is the alarming spectacle of Hong Kong's beaches, literally submerged in mountains of waste.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himPlastic bags and bottles, food packaging, packaging and much more. This is it alarming sight of the Hong Kong beaches, literally submerged in mountains of waste.
I am above all there Cheung Sha Beach on Lantau Island and Stanley Beach di Hong Kong to worry more with tens of thousands of tons of plastic on the water's edge, just where it is usual to lie down and sunbathe.
A problem that has always plagued China, but has seen an increase in the last year six to ten times of the usual plastic garbage, very difficult to dispose of in nature.
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The Hong Kong Department of Environmental Protection claims the waste comes from abusive and illegal landfills existing in the country and brought to the beach by the monsoon winds.
"View garbage on the beach for us it does not represent anything new but it is this disaster is much more serious than what we are used to, ”he said Gary Stokes, director of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
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According to Stokes, the waste that until some time ago was on the coast was due to people's incivility, but these are not. “It's an unprecedented situation: the labels and packaging seem to indicate to us that the garbage comes from Mainland China ".
The show shared by the citizens shows trash all over the place and people diving into the water next to it. Stokes himself encouraged fellow citizens to take photos of the labels to take them to the Chinese government and sit at a discussion table on measures to be taken before it is too late.
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Among the major concerns are the effects of precipitation, sea currents and monsoons that help move waste from one side to the other.
Second Paolo Zimmerman, Southern District councilor "the problem caused by both illegal landfills and household waste thrown overboard".
It is speculated that one of these landfills could be on the island of Wai Ling Ding and that it would unload directly into the sea.
These terrible images come a year after the government report which claimed that "litter at sea is not a serious problem in Hong Kong".
Yet every year over 15 thousand tons of waste are collected on the beaches, mainly because according to a report from the University of Georgia, China is the largest producer of plastic in the world. A threat for public health and for our seas that must be dammed as soon as possible.
Dominella Trunfio
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