Galapagos inundated with waste plastic. Plan launched to save wildlife.

Equateur : l’archipel des Galapagos fait la chasse aux plastiques pour sauver ses tortues !

En direct du monde par Alexis Morel mercredi 3 décembre 2014

sacs plastiques et autres détritus polluent les plages © Maxppp. Plastic bags and other detritus pollute the beaches.

Les autorités de la province équatorienne vont interdire d’ici trois mois tous les sacs plastiques, très dangereux pour la faune locale. The authorities of the Equatorian province will ban plastic bags from now for three months, due very dangerous for the local fauna.

Les Galapagos sont connus dans le monde entier pour héberger une biodiversité unique. Une biodiversité menacée donc par l’utilisation des plastiques sur ces îles, peuplées de 30.000 habitants. Principal problème, les sacs de course et les polystyrènes, qui représentent 10% des déchets de l’archipel. Ils sont très difficilement dégradables, et représentent un risque d’étouffement pour les oiseaux, et les espèces marines (tortues et otaries notamment).

The Galapagos are known, world-wide, for it’s existence of a unique biodiversity. This biodiversity is threatened by the use of plastics on the islands, peopled by 30,000 inhabitants. The main problem is the polystyrene shopping bags, which represent 10% of the archipelago’s waste products.  It takes forever to degrade and presents a risk of suffocation for birds, and the marine areas (notably tortoise and sea-lions)    

Alors, d’ici trois mois, aux Galapagos, les sacs plastiques ne seront plus disponibles pour faire les courses, ni la vaisselle en plastique, les verres ou les pailles. Comme tout est importé ou presque, il devrait être assez facile de bloquer l’arrivée de nouveaux produits plastiques. Seul seront autorisées les matières biodégradables.

So from now and for three months in the Galapagos, plastic bags will not be made available for shopping, neither will plastic dishes, glasses or straws. As nearly everything is imported, it will be easy to block the entry of new plastic products. Only biodegradable materials will be authorised.

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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