{"id":23788,"date":"2021-11-18T14:31:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T14:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/2021\/11\/18\/800000-plastic-pellets-collected-in-two-hours\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T09:39:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T09:39:54","slug":"800000-plastic-pellets-collected-in-two-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodkarmaprojects.org\/en\/2021\/11\/18\/800000-plastic-pellets-collected-in-two-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"800,000 plastic pellets collected in two hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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This Saturday 13th November, 50 volunteers participated in the beach clean-up organised together with Surfrider Foundation Europe and with the collaboration of Vilaseca Town Council, to denounce the presence of plastic pellets on the beach of La Pineda.<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Pellet contamination in the area is recurrent and constant. The pellets that are found are of different colours and shape, as a result of various spills and continuous losses by the companies in the area. In fact, Tarragona and Barcelona have approximately 70% of Spain’s plastics production industry. According to data from the Chemical Business Association of Tarragona, 19.3 metric tonnes of plastic were produced in Tarragona in 2017.<\/p>

Thanks to this machine created together with Surfrider, we removed 800,000 plastic pellets from the beach. But this would be only a small part of what is on the beach. Calculations show an accumulation of approximately 1000 pellets per square metre in the area we sampled.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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