On Italian beaches 714 waste every 100 meters – ANSA.it

On the Italian beaches instead of shells is a multicolored carpet of waste, including bottle caps, disposable tableware, cigarette butts, cotton buds thrown in toilet and passed unscathed from the treatment plants. Every hundred meters of the beach there are about 714 on average, and three out of four are plastic objects. The warning comes in the Beach Litter Legambiente report, which monitored 47 Italian beaches for an area of ​​106 thousand square meters and has found more than 33 thousand beached waste.

Leading the top ten of the most objects between the sand are pieces of plastic and polystyrene (22.3% of the total), destined with time to fragment into millions of micro-particles that end up in the belly of the fish and, from there, on our tables. 13.2% of the waste are the sticks of cotton swabs to which the volunteers have collected 4,412 pieces, more than 2,642 cigarette butts (7.9%). Follow caps and plastic and metal lids, bottles and fishing nets.

At geographical level, the most critical situation is on the beach Coccia di Morto in Fiumicino (Rome) , in near the mouth of the Tiber, where they accumulate waste from the river. Here Legambiente has found more than 5,500 waste in 100 meters, of which 2 of 3 due to poor purification (3,716 cotton buds collected). Black shirt for the Olivella beach in Santa Flavia (PA) , with 1,252 waste in 100 meters.

The 47 sampled beaches:
– Liguria and Tuscany the sampled beaches fall in the municipalities of Genoa ( Voltri beach ) and Orbetello ( beach Giannella ) in province of Grosseto.
– New York five samples: the beach Coccia di Morto in Fiumicino to Capocotta Ostia , two sectors on the lido Marechiaro at Anzio and Levante beach in Terracina (Lt).
– Campania is present in the survey with well sixteen beaches : a near Caserta, a Castelvolturno (free beach in the locality Bagnara ); five in the province of Naples, Pozzuoli the Monachelle the beach and the beach of the Natural Reserve of Costa Licola, the beach to the marina of Castellammare di Stabia, the Pezzolo beach to Seiano Marina di Vico Equense and beach Cava dell’Isola in Forio on the island of Ischia; to Salerno there is the beach Mercatello , while in the province beach Poplars , the Agnone Cilento Montecorice , the Plan Velia Ascea, the beach and the Lido Venus Trentova Agropoli, the Oasis dune Torre di Mare in Capaccio, a beach town storehouse in Pontecagnano, the free beach in Battipaglia and the protected area of ​​dunes Legambiente Silaris Eboli .
– Sicily , find the Olivella beach in Santa Flavia and the San Cataldo Trappeto , both in the province of Palermo, Siracusa, the Arenella beach , the Marina di Priolo Gargallo and the Punta ants in Pachino , also in the province of Syracuse; State Beach in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto , in the province of Messina, and Babbaluciara beach in Agrigento .
– Calabria : beach at the seafront Italo Falcomatà in Reggio Calabria and the Steccato beach Cutro in the province of Crotone.
– Basilicata : In the province of Matera the Lido Policoro , lido San Teodoro in Pisticci and the Lido Onda Libera in Scanzano Jonico .
– Puglia: in Taranto a beach on Mar Piccolo, near the Cimino Park and Ginosa was sampled a free on municipal administration initiative. In the province of Bari it has been sampled the beach Cala Lama Monachile in Polignano a Mare .
– Brands are six beaches present in the survey: the Beach Towers Ancona , one of the Montemarciano Marina and Marzocca beach in Senigallia ; beach in the nature reserve of Bilge in San Benedetto del Tronto, the Lido San Tommaso in Fermo and Faleriense beach in Porto Sant’Elpidio .
In high Adriatic were monitored the Vessel golden beach in Comacchio , in the province of Ferrara, the beach at the Laguna del Mort in Eraclea (Venice) and Canovella de ‘Zoppoli in Duino Aurisina (Ts).

Clean all EU beaches costs 411 750 000 euro per year, while the ‘waste impact on the fishing industry is about 61.7 million. The estimate, which emerges from a study commissioned by the EU to Arcadis, has re-launched by Legambiente during the presentation of the report Beach Litter. “The problem of waste and those stranded at sea represents the tip of the iceberg: about 70% of the waste that comes into contact with the marine ecosystem sinks and only 15% remains on the surface,” explains the president of Legambiente Rossella Muroni. “So it is urgent to put in action program for the progressive reduction of waste at sea and in the coastal strip as provided by the EU Marine Strategy Directive, which in Italy have not yet been put in place”. The environmental association dossier is part of the campaign “Clean Beaches and Seabed – Clean-up the Med 2016″ , which over the weekend will mobilize citizens throughout the country for the cleaning of beaches, cliffs and backdrops.