Is greece cleaning up its act ?

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Out of all the med country we sailed in , Greece has always been the dirtiest, plastic bags and bottles litter the sea coffee paper cups and ciz ends the street , but this year just out of the blue it seems to be looking cleaner ,
I think charging people for plastic bags have gone some way to help .
And plastic Tuesday , where yachties go out in dinghy and pick up plastic and rubbish .
 
If only they could fine squirmy tourists for not using the bins provided in bathrooms they could also stop the sea being choked off with wood pulp from toilet tissue killing sea life. The fusspot Eco terrorists.
 
Sounds like you`ve never been to Tunisia, Vic........and there`s always northern Spain, where, on our way down to the med we had to negotiate around a full size floating refrigerator...and through a vast`cloud` of used panty-liners and sanitary towels
 
NOHOH said:
Sounds like you`ve never been to Tunisia, Vic........and there`s always northern Spain, where, on our way down to the med we had to negotiate around a full size floating refrigerator...and through a vast`cloud` of used panty-liners and sanitary towels
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Well actually I have Tunisia just in March and twice before , we was in monistir you can read our report on noonsite , it's the only place every I seen the cleaners remove bins of the post and wash them out ,
All day long the staff go around with nets fishing out the smalls bit of paper ,
the really dirty place is the street market and like any other street market come late at night it's all cleared up .
South of Spain I agree it's the it's the next dirty places after Greece sheets of plastic off the green houses can be seen in the sea
 
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NOHOH said:
Sounds like you`ve never been to Tunisia, Vic........and there`s always northern Spain, where, on our way down to the med we had to negotiate around a full size floating refrigerator...and through a vast`cloud` of used panty-liners and sanitary towels
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I may have seen that floating fridge just last year mid channel between Newlyn and Roscoff.
 
Just come back from Greece and going back again in two months. The beaches are getting much cleaner and some places away from the tourists are spotless. However, few metres away from the beach, the rubbish is piled up on and around bins and skips, it is a disgusting sight. Now that the Greeks have to pay council tax for the first time in their lives, they should demand cleaner streets.
 
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC said:
Just come back from Greece and going back again in two months. The beaches are getting much cleaner and some places away from the tourists are spotless. However, few metres away from the beach, the rubbish is piled up on and around bins and skips, it is a disgusting sight. Now that the Greeks have to pay council tax for the first time in their lives, they should demand cleaner streets.
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Agree in the city's things aren't much better then before As you say bins still full to the brim and the tourists don't help , you think they would know better . But its nice to see at last less bottles and bags floating in the water.
And to see a Greek walk across the road and put his paper cup in the bin add a good feeling to it .
 
When the sea is flat mirror calm the full horror of floating plastic is seen. I recall sailing east of Cyprus a few years ago when I saw so much garbage it totally covered the surface. Westerly winds collected the garbage and tried to dump it on the shores of the Lebanon.
 
At the risk of a brexit rage... it just shows how poor is the Union at policing its so called environmental policies.

Most of the plastic will be coming from the northern shore of the Med. Yet none of those countries are being prosecuted by the ECJ.
 
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