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UNEP: Mediterranean Can No Longer Be a Garbage Dump

by Andrew Posner, Providence, Rhode Island on 04.12.08
Cars & Transportation

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As of May 1, 2009, ships will no longer be allowed to dump waste into the Mediterranean. The new rules, announced by the United Nations Environment Programme, ban the dumping of "all plastics, including but not limited to synthetic ropes, synthetic fishing nets and plastic garbage bags" as well as "all other garbage, including paper products, rags, glass, metal, bottles, crockery, dunnage (loose material used in ship storage), lining and packing materials." While this is certainly good news, the more burning question is, why were ships allowed to dump garbage into the Mediterranean until now?

It turns out that the measures "had been suspended for years to allow for improvements to inadequate garbage collection facilities in ports around the sea's coasts." Hopefully those improvements have been made, and the new measures will actually be enforced. Still, it's hard to believe that dumping of this kind has been legal for so long. . .

Via: ::AP

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Its funning garbage on the country club lawn gets cleaned up right away. Oceans and the atmosphere is not in most peoples back yard and less visible so it will be the last thing thats ever cleaned up.

jump to top surfcam says:

Until recent years, the good ole US Navy was dumping everything possible off of their ships, they've gotten better, but still too many people believe that the oceans are our personal dumping grounds, sad. Gald to see things changing in the right direction.

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