Manta Net Microplastics Sampling in Greece

Microplastics sampling carried out from the Rainbow Warrior, close to Antikythera Island, during an expedition in the Aegean Sea to document the impact of plastic plastic pollution on marine life.

Unique identifier: GP0STQYDQ

Type: Image

Shoot date: 22/07/2017

Locations: Aegean Sea, Europe, Greece

Credit line: © Constantinos Stathias / Greenpeace

Size: 1000px × 667px 394KB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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"Less Plastic More Mediterranean" Rainbow Warrior Tour (Greece)

The Rainbow Warrior starts its Greek leg of the plastic-free Mediterranean tour from the island of the loggerhead sea turtle, Zakynthos. The tour aims to promote solutions to end our single use plastic addiction.

Statistics of single use plastics in Greece are heartbreaking. Each year Greeks consume approximately 300 million plastic coffee cups, 4.3 billion plastic bags and 2 billion plastic bottles, which in several cases end up in our beautiful seas and beaches. It's time for less plastic and more Mediterranean.

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