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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: STEMO on 26 May 2020, 12:53:02
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.....mentioned that this might happen?
Coronavirus: French alarm at Covid-linked Med pollution https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52807526
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Perhaps all the boat people could fish it out on the way over :-X
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Don't think so.... :-\
I might have mentioned bodies littering the seafloor, but not masks. :)
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Don't think so.... :-\
I might have mentioned bodies littering the seafloor, but not masks. :)
The old boy gets confused these days. :-X
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Don't think so.... :-\
I might have mentioned bodies littering the seafloor, but not masks. :)
8th May:
Think of the mountains of single use plastic waste that the NHS sends to landfill every day, and that's just normally! ::)
If they used re-usable kit that could be washed and sterilised they wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.... But hey, thou shalt not criticise the NHS!
I wasn't that far out.
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Yes but I didn't say in the context of illegal migration across the Med. ;)
Fair point though, and yes the NHS does produce mountains of single use plastic and that's just in normal times. :)
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Yes but I didn't say in the context of illegal migration across the Med. ;)
Fair point though, and yes the NHS does produce mountains of single use plastic and that's just in normal times. :)
And I didn't mention illegal migration. ;D
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Yes but I didn't say in the context of illegal migration across the Med. ;)
Fair point though, and yes the NHS does produce mountains of single use plastic and that's just in normal times. :)
And I didn't mention illegal migration. ;D
No but you linked the article that did. :P
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Yes but I didn't say in the context of illegal migration across the Med. ;)
Fair point though, and yes the NHS does produce mountains of single use plastic and that's just in normal times. :)
And I didn't mention illegal migration. ;D
No but you linked the article that did. :P
No I fickin didn't ;D
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Don't think so.... :-\
I might have mentioned bodies littering the seafloor, but not masks. :)
The old boy gets confused these days. :-X
Don't think it's me, Opti ;D
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Yes but I didn't say in the context of illegal migration across the Med. ;)
Fair point though, and yes the NHS does produce mountains of single use plastic and that's just in normal times. :)
And I didn't mention illegal migration. ;D
No but you linked the article that did. :P
No I fickin didn't ;D
Well? :P
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Yes but I didn't say in the context of illegal migration across the Med. ;)
Fair point though, and yes the NHS does produce mountains of single use plastic and that's just in normal times. :)
And I didn't mention illegal migration. ;D
No but you linked the article that did. :P
No I fickin didn't ;D
Well? :P
Yes you fekin did! Check your OP FFS! :-X ;D
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Here is the whole article, where does it mention immigration?
Video shot by a French environmental NGO in the Mediterranean Sea shows masks and gloves littering the seabed.
Opération mer propre (Operation clean sea) is trying to clean up the coast near the Côte d'Azur resort of Antibes.
It is appalled by this new coronavirus pollution, which adds to the already chronic problem of plastic pollution.
The group says it is sounding the alarm, as Europe slowly emerges from lockdown and people start revisiting beaches in the hot weather.
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The group's founder, Laurent Lombard, who shot the underwater footage and posted it on Facebook, says "these masks - we haven't had them for long, and we're going to have billions, so I say watch out, it's the beginnings of a new type of pollution".
Diving off Golfe-Juan, near Antibes, he found five disposable face masks and four latex gloves on the seabed, along with the usual plastic rubbish such as empty bottles.
Already on 14 May - just three days after the French lockdown was eased - street cleaners in Paris complained on social media that many masks had been discarded on the capital's pavements.
An MP in the southern Alpes-Maritimes district, Eric Pauget, has put forward a draft law to increase the fine for littering a public place with masks. It would fine an offender €300 (£265; $330) instead of the current €68, news website LCI reports.
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Well? ;D
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OK my bad. ::)
Bet they're contributing though.... :P
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OK my bad. ::)
Bet they're contributing though.... :P
Of course....they're migrants.
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Don't think so.... :-\
I might have mentioned bodies littering the seafloor, but not masks. :)
The old boy gets confused these days. :-X
Don't think it's me, Opti ;D
It's always you. It's never not you. :)
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It was I wot suggested that they should clean up on the way over... In a quid pro quo kind of way ;)
But obviously Stemo made me suggest it :D