"プラスチックは食物連鎖に達して汚染している"
"The plastic has reached the food chain"
DESAYUNO CON... MANUEL MAQUEDA
“El plástico ha llegado a la cadena alimentaria”
El activista medioambiental Manuel Maqueda desgrana los peligros de un material que "ya llevamos en el organismo"
Esther Sánchez 1 MAR 2013 - 21:58 CET
BREAKFAST WITH ... MANUEL MAQUEDA
"The plastic has reached the food chain"
Environmental activist Manuel Maqueda pinpoints the dangers of a material that "we are already in the body"
Esther Sanchez 1 MAR 2013 - 21:58 CET
Within two minutes of conversation, you surprise glancing sideways at the cup of coffee to make sure it is not plastic. Right, looks good china. Sigh of relief. Meanwhile, Manuel Maqueda, Madrid's degree in Law and Economics and founder of several NGOs, including the Plastic Pollution Coalition (Coalition Against Plastic Pollution), continuous shelling, quiet, even with a certain restraint, but without truce, the dangers of a material that "has already entered the food chain and we carry it in the body as endocrine disruptors, also present in all oceans of the world at a rate scandalous". He estimates that there are 100 million tons of plastic suspended in the seas.
Dislikes qualify as an enemy, because "in itself is not". "But," he says, "used to make disposable objects, has been transformed into a monster that threatens to devour us silently, because it is behind many types of cancers and even hyperactivity in children." Remember that the World Health Organization has issued a report which considers these disruptors as a global threat. It has come to Madrid from California, where he lives for 10 years, to participate in the conference without Plastics For a Sea held this weekend as part of the show diving Dive Travel Show 2013, in Madrid.
Five years ago, Charles Moore, an oceanographer who discovered the large patch of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean the size of the United States-, gave him a clear bag. Sand contained plastic chip. "They are the beaches of the future", he warned. He understood the meaning of junking a material that lasts hundreds of years and you do not know the exact chemical composition.
In their fight-has a portal called elplasticomata.com-has been associated with the American photographer Chris Jordan, with whom he recorded a documentary, which will debut this year-on Midway Island, an atoll of 6.2 kilometers North Pacific, which inhabits an impressive colony of two million birds, especially albatrosses. "Many chicks die due to intake of all types of plastic. Toothbrushes, lighters, tampon applicators and anything else that their parents mistake for food, "he says. For him the image of these birds is a metaphor "of toxicity within us and a warning about the decisions we make as a culture."
In his opinion, there are gestures that can be the beginning, as the ban on plastic bags, but his optimism fades when you think about the industry that has made last year 280 million tons of plastic and it plans to increase the per capita of this material, especially in emerging countries. Any way to stop? "The strength is in us," he replies firmly. And it claims the right to know the risks of plastic, "as with the snuff". What a person says there are weeks that takes out the trash: "Because of my life I have removed all the plastic used useless than before."
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