ITALY: CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO CLEAN UP NAPLES' BEACHES AND COASTLINE

Record ID: 347295

  • Title: ITALY: CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO CLEAN UP NAPLES' BEACHES AND COASTLINE
  • Date: 15th July 1985
  • Summary: 1. SV PULL BACK TO GV Men fishing rubbish out of Bay of Naples. 0.09 2. CU & SVs Dead fish in polluted water. (2 SHOTS) 0.17 3. GV People on cleaned up area of Naples beach and ZOOM IN TO corner of beach where rubbish has been piled up. 0.39 4. GV & TOP VIEW EXTERIOR Naples sewage plant. (2 SHOTS) 0.46 5. GV Sewage workers with spades. 0.50 6. CU & SVs Rubbish clogg
  • Embargoed: 30th July 1985 13:00
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  • Location: NAPLES AND SEA OFF NAPLES, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAEQ0GAVP0K8SMPEJAOTG54944B
  • Story Text: NAPLES AND SEA OFF NAPLES, ITALY

    Ecologists in Italy have launched a campaign to clean up the beaches of Naples - one of the country's most popular tourist spots. Local ecologists claim the beaches and sea round the Bay of Naples are becoming a health hazard to bathers. Now, representatives from the church and local government are attempting to improve the situation. Sewage workers have been despatched with spades to remove the decaying rubbish, which has partially blocked sewage filtration plants in the area. Volunteers have also joined in, distributing rubbish bags to shop-keepers in an attempt to clean up the streets. An ecological group called "Marevivo" is trying to clean up the waters between Naples and the Island Capri. But the task is slow and painstaking with small groups fishing the debris from the waters with boat hooks and other implements. The rubbish collected is weighed, with prizes being awarded to the group that has collected the most. Pollution on Mediterranean beaches has been a problem for several years. In 1983, a survey produced by the United Nations Environment Programme, said one quarter of all Mediterranean beaches were "dangerously filthy" and nearly all mussels and oysters were unsafe to eat. The report cited sewage as the main cause of the pollution, with eighty-five per cent of the waste from the sea's 120 coastal cities being flushed out into the waters where residents and holidaymakers bathed and fished.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - ROLANDO FERRARIO</strong>
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