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Added on the 24/03/2022 10:56:21 - Copyright : Euronews EN
To mark World Environment Day, volunteers gather and sort through plastic waste and rubbish collected at one of Cyprus' first two plastic-free beaches, in an effort to keep the stretches of sand free of single-use plastics.
Oil washing up on a beach on Thailand's east coast could be the "nail in the coffin" for pandemic-hit hotels and restaurants, local hospitality businesses say.
Facilities to encourage visitors to avoid the use of single use plastics are installed by several NGOs and the municipality at the Ayia Triada beach in Paralimni. The beach is now equipped with a water station for cold, filtered and free water. It includes an area for smokers and signs with information on how the visitors can become part of the solution, not the problem are also found at selected points.
Barcelona (Spain), ??May 30 (EFE).- (Camera: EFE) A group of residents of Sant Adrià de Besòs (Barcelona) gathered on Sunday to protest the pollution of the municipality's beach, which was closed on Saturday so authorities could analyze the possible presence of contaminating elements in the sand, which could pose a health risk, due to the industrial activity that took place in the area.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST AND THE BEACH.
It is the largest and most beautiful beach in Lagos, but also the dirtiest: at Lighthouse, plastic washed up by the sea piles up on the sand. Faced with what looks like an ecological disaster, a group of Lagossians have come together to clean the beach.
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