{"id":138089,"date":"2025-03-07T07:59:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T05:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/wwf-cigarette-butts-top-pollutant-on-greek-beaches\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T07:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T05:59:41","slug":"wwf-cigarette-butts-top-pollutant-on-greek-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/wwf-cigarette-butts-top-pollutant-on-greek-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"WWF: Cigarette Butts Top Pollutant on Greek Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138089\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Cigarette butts are the leading pollutants found on Greek beaches, according to the latest findings released on Thursday by WWF Greece. The research, carried out as part of WWF\u2019s \u201cAdopt a Beach\u201d program from 2021 to 2024, reveals that the majority of Greece\u2019s beaches are overwhelmed with plastic and waste. More specifically, a staggering 298,000 items of litter were found per 100 meters on a total of 192 surveyed beaches in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>A closer look at the findings reveals that the overwhelming 83% of litter is plastic. The most common pollutants found include cigarette butts, plastic caps, pieces of Styrofoam, plastic bottles and bags. During the program, 192 beaches were adopted by 173 volunteer groups, with a total of approximately 3,000 participants across Greece. The participating Greek beaches with the highest levels of pollution were Erotospilia (Porto Rafti), the beach in front of the Peace and Friendship Stadium in Piraeus, Vagonia (Poros), Apollonies Voula, and Kalamaki. Those with the lowest levels of litter were To Psilou to Rouma, Pali\u03bf Kavala, Stegna (Rhodes), Karavaostasi, and Rakopotamos (Larissa).<\/p>\n<p>The level of plastic pollution in the Mediterranean is also alarming. Data from 338 beaches (2023\u20132024) show that 83% of the total waste consists of plastics, with glass, metal, and paper following in significantly smaller amounts.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tovima.com\/society\/wwf-cigarette-butts-top-pollutant-on-greek-beaches\/\">Tovima<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/2-679\/\">WWF: Cigarette Butts Top Pollutant on Greek Beaches<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1112,6075,575,1104,1219],"class_list":["post-138089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-beach","tag-cigarette-butt","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-greece","tag-wwf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}