Between 2002 and 2006 bags plastic in the Mediterranean were the fourth most abundant waste after cigarette butts and bottles
floating in the Mediterranean "an island of plastic between Italy, Spain and France
Rome, March 9 (Adnkronos) - In the sea between Italy, Spain and France there is a concentration of plastic that exceeds that of the so-called "junk
continent" present in the Atlantic Ocean. And in just one hour in the Tuscan archipelago were collected 4 pounds of waste, of which 73% of plastic. These are some of the data
report "The impact of plastic bags on the marine environment" created by Harp Tuscany and the structure of oceanographic Daphne Arpa Emilia Romagna at the request of Legambiente.
The report, which summarizes the most important scientific studies on pollution from plastic at sea, "may be a useful contribution to the Ministry of Environment will have to respond to the request for clarification of the European Commission ban on the Italian shopper," said Legambiente stressing that "these are, in fact, the reasons for environmental that may allow it to justify any notion of a breach of the European Directive on packaging."
The study also the plastic waste is the main found in the sea because it is from 60% to 80% of the total garbage found in the waters. A fact that, in some areas, reaches even 90-95% of the total, but also in Italian waters reach serious levels. But the situation is no better elsewhere in the Mediterranean where, according to the results of International Coastal Cleanup, between 2002 and 2006 plastic bags were the fourth most abundant waste after cigarette butts and bottles .
are a total of 500 tons of plastic waste that emphasizes the relationship of Legambiente, the total float Mediterranean and, the French Research Institute on the exploitation of the sea and the University of Liège, Belgium, in summer 2010, the highest concentration of waste water were found in plastic bags.
In the oceans, the situation is equally serious. In the North Atlantic there is a vortex of 334mila pieces of plastic per square kilometer of 5 kg/km2.
"Italy is a country doubly exposed to the problem of plastic bags and scattering at sea," said Stephen Ciafani, scientific director of Legambiente. "It is-more-both because it is the first country to use plastic bags 'disposable', given that sells 25% of the total shopper throughout Europe, but also because it overlooks the Mediterranean Sea, involved as the seas of the rest of the planet from pollution by plastic. For these reasons our country has rightly adopted by the Finance Act 2007, the ban on non-biodegradable shopping bags in force since January 1 last year. "
The large amount of plastic at sea, especially the lighter fraction consists of the bags, causing serious damage to marine life.
at the expense are primarily marine mammals and turtles who mistake the parts in plastic bags for jellyfish , as evidenced by numerous studies in Canadian universities, Brazilian, English and Italian shown in the ratio of the two agencies regional security environment. According to the UNEP and the Swedish Environment Protection Agency, 115 species of marine mammals, 49 are at risk of entrapment or ingestion of marine debris. Cetaceans and marine mammals are attracted to these materials often brightly colored. And not only. Elephant seals, dolphins, whales, manatees have all been found to ingest plastic bags. Turtles in the plastic bag, mistaken for a jellyfish, causing blockage of the digestive tract and subsequent suffocation.
Of 312 species of seabirds, 111 are known to have ingested plastic waste. Between 700,000 and one million seabirds every year are killed by suffocation or entrapment. "For all these reasons, Italy, which is usually delayed in relation to environmental regulations, chose to ban plastic bags, placing even among the advanced industrialized countries."
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Palermo, March 17 - (Adnkronos) - Back home in the Venus of Morgantina, the more than thirty years ago been stolen and returned by the Getty Museum. The Venus, measuring two meters in height and twenty, came to Rome divided into seven boxes that were taken over by men of the Commando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale, coordinated by Massimiliano Quaglierella captain, commander of the archaeological section of the operating department. After customs processing, the seals will be removed tomorrow and begin the journey to Sicily, which will end Saturday with the arrival in Aidone. 
"The birth of a unified state - said Napolitano - has enabled our country to take a decisive historical progress, strengthen the love of country, ending a fatal fragmentation , to recognize in a liberal democratic order, stronger 'experience fascist. " Ups and downs, between fights and shoving, we must all remember that Italy is daughter of resistance and struggle against the dictatorship. 
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perhaps have felt the sensation of a second life, a rebirth. 60. And perhaps it could be otherwise, considering that Hiromitsu Shinkawa has been saved after spending two days 'sailing' at the mercy of the sea, fifteen km from the coast, on the roof of his house blown away by the tsunami that hit the northeastern part of Japan. 
The ground still trembles Japan and the fear of a nuclear disaster is becoming more real. This morning - the 15.36 in Japan - an explosion destroyed one of the four buildings that make up the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan - 250 miles from Tokyo - smashing the roof and walls of which contained one of the reactors and wounding four employees. The inhabitants of the area within a radius of 20 km were immediately removed, but three people were contaminated by radiation. The three were in a high school near the center with 90 other displaced persons, now under clinical observation. Shortly after the explosion, there was an increase in the levels of radioactivity, then declined. 
E 'increasingly heavy toll of earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan Friday . The death toll is updated hourly. Saturday morning found the Japanese army from 300 to 400 corpses in the city of Rikuzentakata in the prefecture of Iwate: count provisional Journal of the victims of the earthquake comes so to 1,200 dead, but is unfortunately destined to grow further. More than 200 corpses were discovered on the beach in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, after the passage of a wave over 10 meters. Another 200 bodies were found in various schools and Iwanuma Natori, Miyagi always. There are about 1,200 homes affected Tsunami in this area. Other 784 people are reported missing. The police reportedly also injured 1,128. According to the agency Kyodo, combining the number of deaths to that of people who are missing, the budget of the victims would likely have risen at an altitude of 1,600. Meanwhile the focus remains high near the power plant in Fukushima: already registered Friday was a dangerous intensification of radiation around the implant; today there was an explosion that would cause the collapse of part of the cage reactor containment . 
E 'Milan, with 56 days of exceeded the limits permitted by law, the city most polluted by fine particles. Followed by 54 days Turin and Brescia with 51. Lodi is still on schedule, but Modena, Pavia, and Venice, with 34 days, I'm definitely ready to SFOR. Framework also critical to the Center-South, Frosinone, which has already exceeded the permitted limit of 48 days, followed by Naples and Pescara , which totaled 36. Other big cities like Rome and Florence, 29 and 28 days of slippage, is now approaching its upper limit. In just over two months already since the beginning of the 22 cities that have breached the limits. 
Rome, March 9 (Adnkronos) - In the sea between Italy, Spain and France there is a concentration of plastic that exceeds that of the so-called "junk continent" present in the Atlantic Ocean. And in just one hour in the Tuscan archipelago were collected 4 pounds of waste, of which 73% of plastic. These are some of the data report "The impact of plastic bags on the marine environment" created by Harp Tuscany and the structure of oceanographic Daphne Arpa Emilia Romagna at the request of Legambiente. 
900 In the classic work is well represented by the works of Hungarian composer Franz Lehar. In 1905 he took the first major success at international level, the opera " The Merry Widow. "Followed over thirty years no less than 30 operas, composed in lively form and spirit of shining light Viennese repertoire. 
The personality of the individual instruments is further highlighted by 'improvisation, allowing each musician to perform the melody of the song according to its sensitivity, "so his ", changing at will, depending on notes and rhythm of 'inspiration of the moment. The pace can be transformed through displacement of accents (the so-called syncopation). 
