“This is one truckload of marine trash picked up during a single day of beach cleanup activity last year at a ‘protected marine area’ near Keelung,” Greenpeace Taiwan “Project Ocean” director Tommy Chung (鍾孟勳) said. Two Greenpeace members hold up a sign beside a large exhibit made up of ocean waste outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA“We did not see any fish or signs of marine life” during offshore dives to collect debris, Chung said. “Only the seabed full of garbage.”“Taiwan has clearly reached a crisis point in coastal pollution and the death of the marine environment,” Chung said. Please, we must approve the ‘ocean conservation’ bill now,” Chung said.

Source: Taipei Times May 05, 2022 03:09 UTC