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Not nice picture is not it? You are the favorite beach, a wriggle the toes in the sand, and suddenly cut your toe on a piece of glass. sparkling daydream You look around you and you tchíonn fault of blackguards everywhere. Wrapper is lying here and there, and cigarette butts are discarded, and seagull skull innocently sparkling daydream involved in a six-pack of beer packaging abandoned on the sand, but why so much rubbish on the beach? sparkling daydream
The lucky Donegal us that we have many sandy beaches, but there is a risk that they will be removed by passage of litter, which stimulates the question 'how has this much litter and what can we do about it? '
We spoke with Martin Burke is a litter warden to Donegal County Council for 14 years. Encourages people to be responsible with their rubbish home with them when they enter the sea during summer this year.
"The trash on the beach is very environmentally friendly, as total need and total litter of plastic to go somewhere, and as soon as the tide comes in, the litter sciobtar it all out. This affects many aspects of the environment, it pollutes the water and makes for much harm sea life. Plastic can stay in the water for hundreds of years, sparkling daydream and never know where it will go.
"We had huge problems with this during the winter when a storm came ashore litter around the coast. Nobody knows where they are from a litter sparkling daydream that came from the beginning "says Martin.
"The message is for people I go seaside summer or give your litter home with you, and leave the beach in the same condition you received it. Any person caught littering on the beach, levied a fine of 150 to the present. We hope that this will encourage persons to think before they do the paper wrapper or entity. An even fine?
It is estimated that killed more than 100,000 marine mammals each year by plastic trash worldwide. It is recognized that marine litter and rubbish additional coastal beach shoe. Martin talks about the ways people can help keep the beaches clean.
"County Council Donegal bags and gloves for people who want to make a clean beach. There are plenty of projects to keep our beaches clean, sparkling daydream such as cleaning sparkling daydream Spring / Summer and two minutes cleaning the demand sparkling daydream that they, in their proposal two minutes people spend on cleaning some of the beach and then taking photos of. Maybe people do not understand that the little things like this that affect, as though we'd rubbish all the cleaning is not possible to get every piece of litter. We are grateful for any help, and it is gratifying to be involved sparkling daydream in work that helps maintain sparkling daydream our county. We could eliminate water pollution and land pollution through their own litter home to us. It is no rocket science "Martin said and smiled at him.
What are the dangers of litter on our beaches? Litter thrown on the beach, into the water sciobtar is possible that the resulting water pollution. Plastic is one of the main sources of litter on beaches and can be fatal. Wildlife can go wrong in the plastic loops that keep cans together, which can hurt them or even to death. Anyone caught littering will be charged a fine of 150 on-site. Last year built 2 tons (yes, that is you read correctly!) Of debris away from Rossnowlagh beach. sparkling daydream If you would like to send us news about bhruscarú or illegal dumping, contact the Donegal County Council on www.donegalcoco.ie online sparkling daydream or call 074 91 53 900
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