‘Alarming’ microplastic pollution in Europe’s great rivers • FRANCE 24 English
“Alarming” levels of microplastic have been found in major rivers across Europe according to scientists in 14 studies published simultaneously Monday. “The pollution is present in all European rivers” studied, said French scientist Jean-François Ghiglione, who coordinated the large-scale operation across nine major rivers from the Thames to the Tiber.
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19 comments
get a microscope and look at your crisps you can see little pieces of plastic its crazy
You are worried about a little plastic, and it is not an issue in my country Bangladesh. If you see the amount of plastic bags, polythene, and bottles lying in the water in an area, you will not be able to survive.
And your waters will be turned to wormwood
This is why we need to
1. Make clothing out of regeneratively grown natural fibers
2. Make tires out of natural rubber
We also need to invest in technologies to remove microplastics from water.
Updated technologies are showing great promise on this issue.
Make Coca Cola pay for this crap
Good work bringing these news to people's attention
I am so shocked to see how seriously this is dealt with! As an indian these rivers are cleanest natural water source I have ever seen. Hats off to EU. You deserve the crown of best country ❤
Microplastics actually scare me more than greenhouse gasses and smoke pollution.
Those microplastics will never ever go away…….☹
you think this is pollution take a stroll in Ukraine.
The large large majority of microplastics comes from female menstrual products. No one wants to talk about it, but we should. Even France 24 refuses to mention it, it is not coming from "caps of bottles", those are usually scooped up, the tiny microplastics are coming from menstrual products.
Compared to the 1600,s 1700,s 1800,1900,s the rivers are safe a clean they used to be open sewers at best and industrial drains at worse toxic poison filled death traps now at least you could swim for a few minutes before taking on poisons unlike the past where you would catch 10 diseases and take on a 100 toxins in about 2 seconds
A huge part of the solution is to drive MUCH less and mandate MUCH lighter vehicles that have less emissions.
What about the microfibres shed by these lovely soft fabrics made of ‘100% Polyester’?
Are we heading for another ‘ASBESTOS’ type fiasko?
Got to get rid of the humans.
So the world economy gets destroyed because we couldn't afford to live?
Maybe capitalism isn't the greatest system possible?
It does wonders for a few greedy people and short term gains causing generations of destruction though…
Jee, people are slow in figuring out
All of Europe needs to learn from France in this. Thanks for leading the way.
It took almost a year for the FRENCH MSM to write about it after last Olympic fiasco they had…
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