To avoid having more plastic than fish in the sea, oceans are debated in Lisbon
Diário de Notícias - Portugal - 16/02/2021
Portugal: Pact for dealing with plastic waste achieves first year goals
Lusa - Portugal - 04/02/2021
The Portuguese Plastics Pact (PPP) initiative started a year ago with 55 adherents now has 97, achieving the proposed goals for the first year, according to the coordinator.
The PPP, which has the support of the Government, involves entities such as companies, industries…
Amount of plastic dumped in Med to double in 20 years
AFP - Spain - 27/10/2020
Nearly 230,000 tonnes of plastic is dumped into the Mediterranean Sea every year, a figure which could more than double by 2040 unless “ambitious” steps are taken, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature said Tuesday.
Egypt, Italy and Turkey are…
239 plastic bottles found in Macao's coastal areas
Hoje Macau - 11/09/2020
The coast is not only composed of natural landscape. Ocean Conservancy reveals that last year more than nine thousand tons of garbage were found worldwide. 1,999 items were found on the beaches of Macau, making a total of 133 kilos of garbage
Food packaging was the most…
A sea of plastic - See PDF
Plataforma - Macao - 05/09/2020
Universities in São José and the Algarve will study the presence of microplastics on the coast of Macau. The city is at the mouth of one of the rivers that most plastics drag into the oceans. A liter of sediment collected off the city’s coast may contain thousands of…
