Greenpeace hopes for plastic-free islands
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/12/16
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – During a special beach-cleaning campaign, environmentalists
A cleanup campaign found 10,000 plastic bottles on the beaches of Penghu. (By Central News Agency)
removed 3 tons of trash including 10,000 plastic bottles from the beaches of Penghu, reports said Saturday.
Greenpeace said it hoped it could turn Penghu, an archipelago in the middle of the Taiwan Strait between China and Taiwan’s main island, into a plastic-free model area.
Especially during the winter, northeasterly winds would help garbage and plastic drift toward the north coast of the islands, according to a Central News Agency report, while in summer, the beaches on the south side would suffer most.
On Friday, students, residents and the crew of the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior took to the beaches of the capital Magong to find and remove as much trash as they could.
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