1.5-ton garbage removed from Taiwan’s Keelung Islet in two hours

Keelung Islet has been shut down for nearly three years due to damage to the wharf
Date: 2018/05/12
By: Teng Pei-ju,Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Six hundred people joined a cleanup event Saturday on

Six hundred people joined a cleanup event on Keelung Islet on May 12 (By Central News Agency)

Keelung Islet, a small island a few kilometers from the northeast of Keelung Port, and gathered roughly 1,500 kilograms of waste within just two hours.

Tsai Fu-ning (蔡馥嚀), an official from the Keelung City Government, said Keelung Islet had been shut down for nearly three years due to damage to the wharf, and its shore therefore accumulated a huge amount of garbage floating by or getting stuck, reported the Central News Agency.    [FULL  STORY]

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