Taipei, Oct. 31 (CNA) A Taiwanese teenager won two awards at the 2022 Mostratec International Science and Technology fair held in Brazil last week, according to a press release on Sunday from the National Taiwan Science Education Center.
Seafood tainted by plastic: Greenpeace
‘Ineffective’: Restrictions on plastic items affect marine pollution, but policies have failed to reduce the amount of plastic in use, the environmental group said
By Jonathan Chin / Staff writer, with CNA
Taiwanese seafood eaters are ingesting about 1,630 granules of microplastics every year, or the equivalent of a plastic straw, Greenpeace Taiwan said on Thursday.
Taiwanese aged 19 to 65 who eat seafood on average consume 50kg of fish and shellfish per year, Greenpeace project director Tang An (唐安) told a news conference in Taipei.
Fifty kilograms of mollusk meat from clams and mussels caught in waters around Taiwan contain an average of 14,773 granules of microplastics, Tang said, citing data from the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), Ocean Conservation Administration, Taiwan Science Exploration Fair, Taipei Medical University and National Dong Hwa University