Question 11003 — waste

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Ms. Jacqueline Dubois alerts the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, to the asphyxiation of the Mediterranean Sea due to plastic. A report published by the WWF (World Wide Fund of Nature) on June 8, 2018 draws an alarming observation on the health of the seas and oceans. It reveals an extremely high concentration level of microplastics, thus endangering the balance of all biodiversity. Birds, fish, Turtles are particularly impacted by this detritus. Also, the estimated presence of 1.25 million plastic particles per square kilometer represents a major threat to marine life. These elements were found ingested by 134 species, and discovered particularly in shellfish. Not only are we witnessing poisoning of aquatic fauna and flora, and human organisms, but at the end of the chain, these Dust from pieces of plastic ends up being found in certain foods that we consume with effects that we can imagine are harmful to human health. She asks him what the Government's strategy is to stop in France, at the level of the European Union and at the global level, the proliferation of plastic waste which greatly harms ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea and, more broadly, in the oceans.

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