Plastic bottles one of the main types of ocean garbage are washing up in coastal areas within just 23 days of leaving the bottling line, Yen Ning (顏寧), chief executive officer of environmental consultancy the IndigoWaters Institute, said in an interview with the Central News Agency this week.
IndigoWaters, which offers services and advice to authorities in Taiwan on the management of coastal and ocean pollution, compiled data from the Environmental Protection Administration’s “Project of Promoting and Maintaining Clean Coasts and Performance Management: Rapid Assessment and Source Analysis,” which the agency released in December last year.
The analysis was based
A Taipei-based ocean conservation group on Tuesday urged the government to quickly address the growing problem of trash from oyster farms drifting ashore.
Kuroshio Ocean Education Foundation CEO Lin Dong-liang (林東良) said the government needs to amend laws and offer subsidies to reduce waste, as more garbage washes onto the northeastern coast from the southwest, where the majority of oyster farms are based.
Over the past three years, an increasing amount of abandoned cages and pieces of polystyrene boards used by farmers to grow oysters have been carried to the northeastern coast by ocean currents, he said.
On the west coast, large areas
Taipei, Oct. 19 (CNA) A Taipei-based ocean conservation group urged the government on Tuesday to take swift action and come up with a set of measures to address the deteriorating problem of marine trash.
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