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Sri Lanka battles waves of plastic waste from burning ship
by Amal Jayasinghe, 5/28/21, Phys Org Tons of plastic pellets from a burning container ship swamped Sri Lanka's west coast Friday, prompting a ban on fishing as int'l efforts to salvage the vessel dragged into a 9th day. The govt announced the ban along an 80-km (50-mi) coastal area, including Colombo, fearing contamination with pollutants & plastic waste from the stricken ship. "We will compensate the owners of 5,600 boats affected by the ban," fisheries minister Kanchana Wijesekera said while adding that seafood currently in the market was safe for consumption. Millions of plastic granules washed up at the holiday resort of Kalutara€”43 km south of Colombo€”on Friday, a day after similar pollution at Negombo, a tourist & fishing area 40 km north of the capital. Sri Lankan authorities meanwhile deployed hundreds of security personnel in hazmat suits to clean the beaches of plastic waste & other debris from the Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl burning since May 20. Sri Lanka navy chief Vice Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne said the fire was largely under control & the risk of the vessel breaking up had diminished. "Right now there is no threat of the ship breaking up, but we don't know how much of oil is still left," Ulugetenne told reporters in Colombo. -Microplastic threat- Sri Lanka's Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) said a possible oil leak was the biggest threat, but the ship's plastic cargo had already caused extensive damage. The impact on mangroves & lagoons was still being estimated while a beach clean up was already underway. Harm to marine wildlife and birds is also being assessed. "Sri Lanka is one of the best bio-diverse countries in Asia & this type of plastic pollution, esp. from microplastics can have long term repercussions," MEPA chairperson Dharshani Lahandapura said. "Microplastics are already an issue in the world's oceans & this disaster here is making it worse for us." Microplastics are very small pieces of any type of plastic less than 5 mm & could be ingested by fish & in turn get into humans. She said much of the cargo, incl. 25 tons of nitric acid, sodium hydroxide (caustic soda), lubricants & other chems appeared to have been destroyed in the huge fire. Bulldozers scooped up tons of the polythene pellets that came from at least 8 containers that fell off the ship Tues. Officials said the vessel was known to carry 28 containers of pellets that are used as a raw material in the packaging industry. The X-Press Pearl, which is anchored just outside the Colombo harbor, was still smouldering & an int'l salvage effort to put out the fire was underway. The fire broke out on May 20 as the ship waited to enter the Colombo port. Authorities believe the fire was caused by a nitric acid leak which the crew had been aware of since May 11. The 25-member crew evacuated on Tues & two of them suffered minor injuries in the process, the owners of the vessel said on Thurs. Oil residue & charred containers have already washed ashore at Negombo. Four Indian vessels have joined Sri Lanka's navy in the battle to contain the fire. Two of the vessels were also equipped to deal with an oil slick, officials said. Salvage operations are led by the Dutch company SMIT which has sent specialist fire fighting tugs. SMIT, renowned salvage troubleshooters, was also involved in dousing the flames on an oil tanker that caught fire off Sri Lanka's east coast last Sept after an engine room explosion that killed a crew member. The fire on the New Diamond tanker took more than a week to put out & left a 40-km (25-mi) long oil spill. Sri Lanka has demanded the owners pay a $17 million clean-up bill. https://phys.org/news/2021-05-plasti...nka-beach.html |
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On Monday, 31 May 2021 at 01:02:01 UTC+1, David P wrote:
Sri Lanka battles waves of plastic waste from burning ship by Amal Jayasinghe, 5/28/21, Phys Org Tons of plastic pellets from a burning container ship swamped Sri Lanka's west coast Friday, prompting a ban on fishing as int'l efforts to salvage the vessel dragged into a 9th day. The govt announced the ban along an 80-km (50-mi) coastal area, including Colombo, fearing contamination with pollutants & plastic waste from the stricken ship. "We will compensate the owners of 5,600 boats affected by the ban," fisheries minister Kanchana Wijesekera said while adding that seafood currently in the market was safe for consumption. Millions of plastic granules washed up at the holiday resort of Kalutara€”43 km south of Colombo€”on Friday, a day after similar pollution at Negombo, a tourist & fishing area 40 km north of the capital. Sri Lankan authorities meanwhile deployed hundreds of security personnel in hazmat suits to clean the beaches of plastic waste & other debris from the Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl burning since May 20. Sri Lanka navy chief Vice Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne said the fire was largely under control & the risk of the vessel breaking up had diminished. "Right now there is no threat of the ship breaking up, but we don't know how much of oil is still left," Ulugetenne told reporters in Colombo. -Microplastic threat- Sri Lanka's Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) said a possible oil leak was the biggest threat, but the ship's plastic cargo had already caused extensive damage. The impact on mangroves & lagoons was still being estimated while a beach clean up was already underway. Harm to marine wildlife and birds is also being assessed. "Sri Lanka is one of the best bio-diverse countries in Asia & this type of plastic pollution, esp. from microplastics can have long term repercussions," MEPA chairperson Dharshani Lahandapura said. "Microplastics are already an issue in the world's oceans & this disaster here is making it worse for us." Microplastics are very small pieces of any type of plastic less than 5 mm & could be ingested by fish & in turn get into humans. She said much of the cargo, incl. 25 tons of nitric acid, sodium hydroxide (caustic soda), lubricants & other chems appeared to have been destroyed in the huge fire. Bulldozers scooped up tons of the polythene pellets that came from at least 8 containers that fell off the ship Tues. Officials said the vessel was known to carry 28 containers of pellets that are used as a raw material in the packaging industry. The X-Press Pearl, which is anchored just outside the Colombo harbor, was still smouldering & an int'l salvage effort to put out the fire was underway. The fire broke out on May 20 as the ship waited to enter the Colombo port. Authorities believe the fire was caused by a nitric acid leak which the crew had been aware of since May 11. The 25-member crew evacuated on Tues & two of them suffered minor injuries in the process, the owners of the vessel said on Thurs. Oil residue & charred containers have already washed ashore at Negombo. Four Indian vessels have joined Sri Lanka's navy in the battle to contain the fire. Two of the vessels were also equipped to deal with an oil slick, officials said. Salvage operations are led by the Dutch company SMIT which has sent specialist fire fighting tugs. SMIT, renowned salvage troubleshooters, was also involved in dousing the flames on an oil tanker that caught fire off Sri Lanka's east coast last Sept after an engine room explosion that killed a crew member. The fire on the New Diamond tanker took more than a week to put out & left a 40-km (25-mi) long oil spill. Sri Lanka has demanded the owners pay a $17 million clean-up bill. https://phys.org/news/2021-05-plasti...nka-beach.html Does David P spend his entire existence searching long winded and usually irrelevant articles to repost and clog up bandwidth? |
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John J wrote:
Does David P spend his entire existence searching long winded and usually irrelevant articles to repost and clog up bandwidth? It would seem so, yes. Quite what relevance he thinks these stories have to uk.d-i-y I dont know nor why he insists on quoting so much of them. Tim -- Please don't feed the trolls |
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On 02/06/2021 18:14, Tim Streater wrote:
On 02 Jun 2021 at 15:49:33 BST, John J wrote: On Monday, 31 May 2021 at 01:02:01 UTC+1, David P wrote: [snip] https://phys.org/news/2021-05-plasti...nka-beach.html Does David P spend his entire existence searching long winded and usually irrelevant articles to repost and clog up bandwidth? And do you then repost the whole ****ing thing without snipping? And without marking it OT? Irony, innit? |
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![]() "John J" wrote in message ... On Monday, 31 May 2021 at 01:02:01 UTC+1, David P wrote: Sri Lanka battles waves of plastic waste from burning ship by Amal Jayasinghe, 5/28/21, Phys Org Tons of plastic pellets from a burning container ship swamped Sri Lanka's west coast Friday, prompting a ban on fishing as int'l efforts to salvage the vessel dragged into a 9th day. The govt announced the ban along an 80-km (50-mi) coastal area, including Colombo, fearing contamination with pollutants & plastic waste from the stricken ship. "We will compensate the owners of 5,600 boats affected by the ban," fisheries minister Kanchana Wijesekera said while adding that seafood currently in the market was safe for consumption. Millions of plastic granules washed up at the holiday resort of Kalutara€”43 km south of Colombo€”on Friday, a day after similar pollution at Negombo, a tourist & fishing area 40 km north of the capital. Sri Lankan authorities meanwhile deployed hundreds of security personnel in hazmat suits to clean the beaches of plastic waste & other debris from the Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl burning since May 20. Sri Lanka navy chief Vice Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne said the fire was largely under control & the risk of the vessel breaking up had diminished. "Right now there is no threat of the ship breaking up, but we don't know how much of oil is still left," Ulugetenne told reporters in Colombo. -Microplastic threat- Sri Lanka's Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) said a possible oil leak was the biggest threat, but the ship's plastic cargo had already caused extensive damage. The impact on mangroves & lagoons was still being estimated while a beach clean up was already underway. Harm to marine wildlife and birds is also being assessed. "Sri Lanka is one of the best bio-diverse countries in Asia & this type of plastic pollution, esp. from microplastics can have long term repercussions," MEPA chairperson Dharshani Lahandapura said. "Microplastics are already an issue in the world's oceans & this disaster here is making it worse for us." Microplastics are very small pieces of any type of plastic less than 5 mm & could be ingested by fish & in turn get into humans. She said much of the cargo, incl. 25 tons of nitric acid, sodium hydroxide (caustic soda), lubricants & other chems appeared to have been destroyed in the huge fire. Bulldozers scooped up tons of the polythene pellets that came from at least 8 containers that fell off the ship Tues. Officials said the vessel was known to carry 28 containers of pellets that are used as a raw material in the packaging industry. The X-Press Pearl, which is anchored just outside the Colombo harbor, was still smouldering & an int'l salvage effort to put out the fire was underway. The fire broke out on May 20 as the ship waited to enter the Colombo port. Authorities believe the fire was caused by a nitric acid leak which the crew had been aware of since May 11. The 25-member crew evacuated on Tues & two of them suffered minor injuries in the process, the owners of the vessel said on Thurs. Oil residue & charred containers have already washed ashore at Negombo. Four Indian vessels have joined Sri Lanka's navy in the battle to contain the fire. Two of the vessels were also equipped to deal with an oil slick, officials said. Salvage operations are led by the Dutch company SMIT which has sent specialist fire fighting tugs. SMIT, renowned salvage troubleshooters, was also involved in dousing the flames on an oil tanker that caught fire off Sri Lanka's east coast last Sept after an engine room explosion that killed a crew member. The fire on the New Diamond tanker took more than a week to put out & left a 40-km (25-mi) long oil spill. Sri Lanka has demanded the owners pay a $17 million clean-up bill. https://phys.org/news/2021-05-plasti...nka-beach.html Does David P spend his entire existence searching long winded and usually irrelevant articles to repost and clog up bandwidth? When he isnt blind drunk on a binge, anyway. |
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 05:25:39 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again: FLUSH the trolling senile asshole's latest troll**** unread -- Bill Wright addressing senile Ozzie cretin Rodent Speed: "Well you make up a lot of stuff and it's total ******** most of it." MID: |
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On Monday, May 31, 2021 at 10:02:01 AM UTC+10, David P wrote:
Sri Lanka battles waves of plastic waste from burning ship by Amal Jayasinghe, 5/28/21, Phys Org Tons of plastic pellets from a burning container ship swamped Sri Lanka's west coast Friday, prompting a ban on fishing as int'l efforts to salvage the vessel dragged into a 9th day. The govt announced the ban along an 80-km (50-mi) coastal area, including Colombo, fearing contamination with pollutants & plastic waste from the stricken ship. "We will compensate the owners of 5,600 boats affected by the ban," fisheries minister Kanchana Wijesekera said while adding that seafood currently in the market was safe for consumption. Millions of plastic granules washed up at the holiday resort of Kalutara€”43 km south of Colombo€”on Friday, a day after similar pollution at Negombo, a tourist & fishing area 40 km north of the capital. Sri Lankan authorities meanwhile deployed hundreds of security personnel in hazmat suits to clean the beaches of plastic waste & other debris from the Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl burning since May 20. Sri Lanka navy chief Vice Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne said the fire was largely under control & the risk of the vessel breaking up had diminished. "Right now there is no threat of the ship breaking up, but we don't know how much of oil is still left," Ulugetenne told reporters in Colombo. -Microplastic threat- Sri Lanka's Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) said a possible oil leak was the biggest threat, but the ship's plastic cargo had already caused extensive damage. The impact on mangroves & lagoons was still being estimated while a beach clean up was already underway. Harm to marine wildlife and birds is also being assessed. "Sri Lanka is one of the best bio-diverse countries in Asia & this type of plastic pollution, esp. from microplastics can have long term repercussions," MEPA chairperson Dharshani Lahandapura said. "Microplastics are already an issue in the world's oceans & this disaster here is making it worse for us." Microplastics are very small pieces of any type of plastic less than 5 mm & could be ingested by fish & in turn get into humans. She said much of the cargo, incl. 25 tons of nitric acid, sodium hydroxide (caustic soda), lubricants & other chems appeared to have been destroyed in the huge fire. Bulldozers scooped up tons of the polythene pellets that came from at least 8 containers that fell off the ship Tues. Officials said the vessel was known to carry 28 containers of pellets that are used as a raw material in the packaging industry. The X-Press Pearl, which is anchored just outside the Colombo harbor, was still smouldering & an int'l salvage effort to put out the fire was underway. The fire broke out on May 20 as the ship waited to enter the Colombo port. Authorities believe the fire was caused by a nitric acid leak which the crew had been aware of since May 11. The 25-member crew evacuated on Tues & two of them suffered minor injuries in the process, the owners of the vessel said on Thurs. Oil residue & charred containers have already washed ashore at Negombo. Four Indian vessels have joined Sri Lanka's navy in the battle to contain the fire. Two of the vessels were also equipped to deal with an oil slick, officials said. Salvage operations are led by the Dutch company SMIT which has sent specialist fire fighting tugs. SMIT, renowned salvage troubleshooters, was also involved in dousing the flames on an oil tanker that caught fire off Sri Lanka's east coast last Sept after an engine room explosion that killed a crew member. The fire on the New Diamond tanker took more than a week to put out & left a 40-km (25-mi) long oil spill. Sri Lanka has demanded the owners pay a $17 million clean-up bill. https://phys.org/news/2021-05-plasti...nka-beach.html Chinese own a Srilankan port, perhaps that's their intenrion to dispose off off harmful plastics ??!! |
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On 02/06/2021 18:14, Tim Streater wrote:
And do you then repost the whole ****ing thing without snipping? And without marking it OT? I didn't see the original - I must have filtered him out. Perhaps I need to filter John too... Andy |
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On 03/06/2021 22:07, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 02/06/2021 18:14, Tim Streater wrote: And do you then repost the whole ****ing thing without snipping? And without marking it OT? I didn't see the original - I must have filtered him out. Perhaps I need to filter John too... David P, the OP is all noise and posts nothing useful. If you use Thunderbird, rather than delete message you can "Ignore Subthread". This gets rid of any additional noise. If enough people simply killfiled or ignored David P then there wouldn't be any need to go to such extremes. |
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 22:17:55 +0100, Fredxx, the notorious, troll-feeding,
senile smartass, blathered again: David P, the OP is all noise and posts nothing useful. At least he's not all smartass like YOU, demented old Freddie! |
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