[Marseille: oil and plastic pollution on creeks beaches]

[Marseille: oil and plastic pollution on creeks beaches]

This oil is probably due to the collision between the container ship Virginia and the cargo ship Ulysses three weeks earlier off the coast of Corsica. Litter, such as plastic bottles and metal cans, was brought to the beaches due to inclement weather. Citizens are mobilizing to clean up the beaches. Commentary on factual images alternating with interviews with Barbara FALK, chief of staff of the prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône and a resident of Marseille. [Source: France 3 prompter] With this bad weather, the sea has loaded a lot of waste on the Var coasts and in the creeks between Marseille and the Ciotat... A lot of plastic but also oil, perhaps as a result of the collision of the two cargo ships 3 weeks ago in Corsica... Xavier SCHUFFENECKER and Laurent ESNAULT topic

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File : Polluted beaches

Publication date : 1 November 2018