The World's Garbage from Waters
10.03.2009 Tempo 24
] [It turned out that the river, channel and sea coasts in the world are collected 3.5 million kilo garbage per 1 day.
[[T]23. In the report released after the International Coast Cleaning Work, about 40 thousand volunteers were reported to clean 27 thousand 400 kilometers of coastline, river bottoms and ocean coasts. [ [Raporda was recorded in 1 day study that volunteers from 104 countries, 3 million 200 thousand scalings, 1 million 400 thousand plastic bags, 942 thousand food packaging increments, 937 thousand caps and 6 thousand 646 vehicles.
In the report reported that the weight of the 114 million pieces, collected by the rest of the liquors, about 3.5 million kilos, thousands of sea mammals, sea turtles and birds were killed every year, the participants found 268 sea mammals among garbage a day, but it was expressed that these are died later than 175.
The new cleaning work in the international scope of the Grub was reported to be done in September 19, 2009.
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