Project to save the Mediterranean Sea"

More than 70 % of marine litter is deposited on the Italian seabed and there is an average of 400 pieces of litter every 100 meters on the beaches. And this is only one of the dangers that threaten the Mediterranean Sea. "It is an almost closed sea surrounded by around 500 million people and numerous anthropic activities," explains Giordano Giorgi, head of the National Center for Environmental Characterization and Protection of the Coastal Zone, Marine Climatology and Operational Oceanography of ISPRA and responsible for the Pnrr MER project (Restoration marine ecosystem) - as a result, the contribution of land-based pollutants is one of the elements of concern, although compared to the 1970s and 1980s the situation in the Adriatic thanks to cleaning systems. are creating accumulations at sea that are still far from replicating the plastic islands in the Pacific from multiple sources such as domestic washing systems and plastic waste. present on the seabed, which we also find in the fish that reach our tables". (MARINA SANTINOVÁ, more at quotidiano.net)