(ANSA) - ROMA, 16 GEN - A worker cleans San Amaro's beach of
plastic pellets in A Coruna, Galicia region, north-western
Spain, 16 January 2024. Millions of pellets washed up in
Cantabria, Asturias and Galicia, all of them regions located in
northern Spain, originated from at least one container that fell
from the Toconao, a Liberia-registered vessel chartered by
shipping giant Maersk, off the coast of Portugal last month, as
stated by the pellets' manufacturer Bedeko Europe. Since it was
noticed, NGOs', private and public cleaning services are working
to clear beaches from these pellets, a difficult task due to the
size of them. (ANSA).