Greek Beaches Filled With 90,000 Pieces Of Trash
Posted on: Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 18:16 CDT
A leading local environmental organization said on Wednesday that Greek beaches were covered in over 91,000 items of garbage last year.
An official at the Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association told AFP that volunteers picked up trash over the year, which included plastic bottles and bags, bottle caps, food containers and discarded fishing equipment.
However, the "king of garbage" in Greece is the cigarette, with over 35,000 butts picked up in the course of a year, Ta Nea daily reported on Wednesday.
The daily said that the trash had an accumulated weight of 16 tons.
Similar campaigns picked up around 16,000 items of trash in Italy, 14,000 in Spain and 3,000 in Portugal.
The cleanup was part of a campaign in 104 countries organized by U.S.-based environmental group Ocean Conservancy.
There are few beaches along Greece's 11,433 mile coast that have garbage bins.
The findings coincide with the poor environmental practice seen in other places in Greece.
Only 25 percent of waste is recycled in Greece and the government has spent years closing down thousands of illegal dumps throughout the country.
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Source: redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports
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