Identifying and classifying SEA RUBBISH

Achilles S.

Did you know this?

While herbal products are dissolved in a few weeks, an aluminium can takes 80-200 years while a plastic bottle 450 years! Let us consider the impacts that may occur every time that without regard we leave our trash on a beach or throw it overboard. Even a cigarette that someone will throw from the deck of a ship takes years to dissolve!

Plastic bottlesWhen throwing a plastic bottle, which as

far as we know contains a small amount of oil, on the coast, the air blows it off to the sea. The plastic within 400-450 years will have melted. But as the plastic melts, the oil spreads to the sea, with the result to harm some animal organisms. This is made by one bottle, think what will happen with the thousands of bottles.

With each garbage we throw away, we kill an animal…

Cigarette butts

• The Greek coasts may be the most beautiful and the beaches of our country to attract visitors, however we still have not managed to solve the problem with waste that bathers leave behind after a visit to the sea.

• Indicative is what is described by the report «Life Ammos» University of Patras, of the environmental organization Mediterranean SOS, the environmental organization Terra Nova Ltd. and Marc SA, indicating for example that on the Schinias beach were detected on average 15 butts per square meters

Plastic caps• During the period 2006-2012 the volunteers wrote down

a total of 343 454 garbage. From the statistical analysis of the written sheets it is clear that the dominant element is the plastic with 37-51% participation. It is followed by the paper (12-18%), metal (7-16%) and glass (5-9%) trash.

• Plastic cαps, plastic water, soft drinks or beverage bottles are in the first places, then followed by the plastic pieces of unknown initial use, straws, cardboard, pieces of paper, cans. It is noted that the absence of cigarette ends from recordings is because the campaign does not give emphasis on smokers' rubbish.