{"id":125687,"date":"2024-02-27T07:59:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T05:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/industrial-site-near-brussels-shows-microplastic-pollution-in-action\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T07:59:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T05:59:26","slug":"industrial-site-near-brussels-shows-microplastic-pollution-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/industrial-site-near-brussels-shows-microplastic-pollution-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial site near Brussels shows microplastic pollution in action"},"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\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\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=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125687\" \/>\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    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>At the invitation of the NGOs Surfrider Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, Euractiv visited the village of \u00c9caussinnes, around 30km from Brussels, on Wednesday (21 February), together with Green MEP Saskia Bricmont and the teams of MEPs Caroline Roose, Ska Keller and Kira Peter-Hansen. \u00c9caussinnes, a municipality of 11,000 people, is adjacent to the largest petrochemical site in Wallonia, the Feluy industrial zone. Every year, between one and 1.2 million tonnes of plastic pellets are produced at Feluy, representing around 44% of the French oil giant\u2019s total production of this material.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Visiting the area around the industrial site, we could see that the earth is encrusted with these plastic pellets, particularly around the stormwater basin. These beads are loaded with additives to give them certain properties and therefore present a risk of contamination for the water, the animals that ingest them and, ultimately, humans.&#8221; \u201cThe manufacturers have never been able to give us an assessment of the quantity [of plastic pellets] released, which is the first reaction in the event of serious pollution,\u201d pointed out Arnaud Gu\u00e9rard.<\/p>\n<p>The local authority\u2019s first reaction was to contact the companies to try and raise awareness of the pollution problem and stop the contamination. The four companies on the Feluy site, however, \u201cpassed the buck\u201d for their responsibility in scattering the plastic balls: Each of the manufacturers blamed the others or the transport companies that clean the trucks outside the site. Faced with this denial, the local authorities then revised the permits to ensure a better level of prevention, in collaboration with the regional administration and the Walloon minister for the environment. Finally, a complaint was lodged with the Belgian courts demanding that the responsibility of the industrialists and the environmental damage be recognised.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/energy-environment\/news\/industrial-site-near-brussels-shows-microplastic-pollution-in-action\/\">Euractiv<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/2-483\/\">Industrial site near Brussels shows microplastic pollution in action<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","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":[575,13553,6437,13554],"class_list":["post-125687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-feluy","tag-microplastic","tag-plastic-pellets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}