Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/16
By: Yang Su-min and Kuan-lin Liu

Taipei, Jan. 16 (CNA) The international environmental group Greenpeace published

Image taken from a video provided by Greenpeace about the project

Tuesday its first report on the presence of microplastics in the seas surrounding Taiwan, which revealed dangerous concentrations of plastics in the water that could pose a threat to food safety.

According to Yen Ning (顏寧), head of Greenpeace Taiwan’s clean oceans initiative, the group set up a total of 18 locations off Taiwan’s coastline, divided between the northern area off the coast of Keelung and the southwestern area off the coast of Kaohsiung, and gathered water samples from these areas.

At one spot off the Keelung coast, 409 pieces of microplastics were collected in one instance, or as Yen described it, the equivalent of having 788,000 pieces of plastic in an Olympic-sized swimming pool.    [FULL  STORY]