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Ecologists warn Spain’s next big rainstorm could wash tonnes of plastic into sea (Video)

Powerful Mediterranean storms which devastated Valencia have had another consequence: transporting plastic pollution to the sea. It's estimated thousands of tonnes of plastic waste from agriculture are dumped illegally in the dry riverbeds of Almera province in Spain every year. As climate change makes these storms, or DANAs, more frequent and more powerful, this means more plastic is winding up in the Mediterranean.

(AP video by Serge Cartwright)

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Ecologists warn Spain's next big rainstorm could wash tonnes of plastic into sea (Video)
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Powerful Mediterranean storms which devastated Valencia have had another consequence: transporting plastic pollution to the sea. It's estimated thousands of tonnes of plastic waste from agriculture are dumped illegally in the dry riverbeds of Almera province in Spain every year. As climate change makes these storms, or DANAs, more frequent and more powerful, this means more plastic is winding up in the Mediterranean. (AP video by Serge Cartwright) Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home

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