10 Sep, 2022 @ 14:15
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Malaga port fitted with plastic filtering technology

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THE Port of Malaga has been equipped with a plastic filtering system that removes non-biodegradable waste from the sea. 

Called a ‘sea bin’, it has been installed at the corner of the docks and is capable of filtering 25,000 litres of water every hour, collecting up to two kilogrammes of waste every day.

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It also filters out harmful diesel waste from boats and at the end of each day, the ‘catch’ is recycled.

Some 85% of the materials caught by the filter are single-use plastics.

According to the president of the Port Authority, Carlos Rubio, the plastics will be recycled into boat sails and bags for a brand of boxing gloves while operators return any fish stuck in the filter back to sea.

Councillor Rosa Sánchez called the scheme timely as it ‘coincides with Malaga’s plans in the era of the sustainable city’ as it vies to be named the Expo 2027 city by showcasing its green credentials.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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