Legambiente, waste on the beaches: 714 meters per hundred – Quotidianodiragusa.it

Bottle caps, disposable tableware and cigarette butts. Are some of the waste that cover the Italian beaches. Every hundred meters of the beach there are about 714 on average, and three out of four are plastic objects. Denounces the relationship Beach Litter of Legambiente, which monitored 47 Italian beaches for an area of ​​106 thousand square meters and has found more than 33 thousand waste beached. 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 lids and metal, bottles and fishing nets.

In geographical terms the most critical situation is on the beach Coccia di Morto in Fiumicino (Rome), 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 jersey 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 the province of Grosseto.
 - Lazio five samples: the beach Coccia di Morto in Fiumicino, to Capocotta in Ostia, two sectors on the Marechiaro lido at Anzio and the Levante beach in Terracina (Lt).
 - Campania is present in the survey with sixteen beaches: one near Caserta, in Castelvolturno (free beach in the locality Bagnara); five in the province of Naples, Pozzuoli Monachelle of 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 Cava the beach of ‘ island in Forio on the island of Ischia; Salerno is the Mercatello beach, while in the province of Poplars beach, that of Agnone Cilento Montecorice, the Plan of Velia Ascea, the beach and the Lido Venus Trentova Agropoli, the Oasis Tower dune Mare Capaccio-Paestum, the beach the resort Magazzeno in Pontecagnano, the free beach in Battipaglia and the protected area of ​​dunes Legambiente Silaris at Eboli.
 - Sicily, we find the Olivella beach in Santa Flavia and San Cataldo Trappeto, both in the province of Palermo, in Syracuse the Arenella beach, the Marina di Priolo Gargallo and Punta of the Ants in Pachino, also in the province of Syracuse; The Canton Beach in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, in the province of Messina, and the Babbaluciara beach in Agrigento.
 - Calabria: the beach at the seafront Italo Falcomatà in Reggio Calabria and the Picket Fence beach Cutro in the province of Crotone.
 - Basilicata: In the province of Matera the beach of Policoro the shore of San Teodoro in Pisticci and the Lido Onda Libera in Scanzano Jonico.
 - Apulia: Taranto at a beach on the Mar Piccolo, close to the Park and Cimino in Ginosa was sampled a free beach on the initiative of the municipal administration. In the province of Bari it has been sampled the Cala beach Lama Monachile in Polignano a Mare.
 - Brands: there are six beaches present in the survey: the beach Torrette di Ancona, that of Marina di Montemarciano and Marzocca beach in Senigallia; the 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 the northern Adriatic they 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).