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When we collect plastics, our main objective is to obtain information on the characteristics of plastic pollution on the island. Last Friday we were in the Freus area, near La Mola de Mahón, with a group of young people and we collected 9.3 kg of plastic in 1 hour.

Among them, we have been able to count:
-153 plugs and caps.
- More than 50 string fragments.
- More than twenty containers.
- About a hundred fragments of wrappers, bags, etc.
- More than a dozen cups, plates, plastic straws , coffee capsules, etc... all for single use.

But the one we would highlight from this collection is having found plastic waste written in Arabic, in Turkish and we believe also in Korean (or another Asian language). Also a piece of a Mistol container, which by aesthetics seems to be a few years old (we are looking for information to be able to know when this product was marketed).

All this information is being reported Ocean Initiatives, where data from beach collections are collected to raise awareness and understand the situation of plastic pollution in Europe.