@PortofHamburg toll-free garbage disposal in the harbours of the North Sea

@PortofHamburg toll-free garbage disposal in the harbours of the North Sea

Started
October 4, 2015
Petition to
Port of Hamburg and 7 others
Petition Closed
This petition had 834 supporters

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Whales that starve with a full stomach, because they have eaten indigestible plastic sheeting, seabirds, the strangulation in the steep walls of Heligoland in power residues, seals with centimeter deep wounds by plastic waste, which cut them deeper and deeper into the flesh.

Micro plastic entering the food chain , researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have an inventory of the Baltic and North Sea began, which is to clarify how high the plastic strain is with us. They do not have good news: In the North Sea already form first plastic carpets from microscopic particles. And that find their way into fish and crabs. The micro plastic thus enters the food chain and therefore at risk humans.

 Marine litter is a global problem that affects every ocean in the world. Litter is an environmental, human health and socio-economic problem that is a symptom of a highly disposable society. With worldwide growth in the amount of solid litter thrown away every day, combined with the slow rates of degradation, the amount of litter ending up in the marine environment is increasing.


We demand:


-Toll-free waste disposal in the harbours of the North Sea


-Ban Plastic Bags

 -cleanup the north sea

 

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 Please support http://www.cleanseas.org/take-action

Please help with:

-Avoiding cosmetics with microbeads

-Not using plastic shopping bags

-Bringing my own cup

-Shrinking my plastic footprint

-Urging firms to cut packaging

-Trying to get plastic removed from my workplace

-Use only glass or steel straws

-Cleaning the beach

-#stopsucking and refuse single use plastic straws

-support recycling and upcycling shops

 

 

Background:

 


Sources of marine debris include:

-Items that are brought to the beach and left there by beachgoers;


-Garbage deliberately or accidentally discarded by ships at sea or from offshore oil platforms; and


--Material carried to sea by rivers and estuaries , especially from large coastal cities.
City storm sewers are a significant source of solid waste entering the sea from land sources.


Aside from its unsightly appearance and potential impact to human health, marine debris has harmful effects on wildlife. Fish, birds, marine mammals, reptiles, and other animals can become entangled in discarded or lost nets that continue to do what they were designed to do—catch living animals—but now they catch them indiscriminately, a process called "ghost fishing." Items unintended for fishing become traps.

Woven plastic onion sacks floating in the sea have entrapped endangered hawksbill sea turtles. Plastic bags become invisible to birds diving for.

 

 

 

 

 


Links: http://www.cleanseas.org/take-action

 

http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Po-Re/Pollution-of-the-Ocean-by-Plastic-and-Trash.html#ixzz4BXoDsZQc

 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150109-oceans-plastic-sea-trash-science-marine-debris/

 

 

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Decision Makers

  • Port of Hamburg
  • Port of Bremen
  • Port of Rotterdam
  • Die Gruenen
  • Niedersaechsische Landesregierung