Innoceana 2021 (eng)


The floating trash

Cleaning the seabed at Las Teresitas beach. According to the scientific community, plastics make up most of the garbage in the sea. Although plastics have brought important benefits to humanity, such as in the field of health and food safety, their inadequate management, their accumulation in the environment, and especially in the marine environment, cause…


The backpack without an owner

A backpack rests on the seabed near a seagrass meadow, known in the Canary Islands as sebadal. The synthetic textile products with which it is made, make degradation very slow under natural conditions, but even slower with pressure, temperature and the lack of light at the bottom of the sea. Photo by Liam McGuire.



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