Matsu threatend by Chinese trash - TW

By Chiu Yu-Tzu
STAFF REPORTER , IN MATSU
Tuesday, May 04, 2004,Page 2

Garbage floating from the east coast of China is jeopardizing environmental quality in the Matsu Islands, say Lienchiang County officials, who want the Environmen-tal Protection Administration (EPA) to help fund a protective boom of barrels.

According to the the county's Environmental Protection Bureau, about 296 tonnes of waste from Fujian Province was collected by sanitation workers in Matsu last year. Nearly three-quarters of it, or 216 tonnes, was wood, straw, leaves, seaweed and other natural materials flushed 30km down the Min River in Fujian.

Chen Yu-li (???), a specialist with the Environmental Protection Bureau, said other kinds of waste included plastic medical apparatus, clothes, plastic bottles, metal cans, glass bottles and the bodies of animals such as chickens, pigs and sheep.

Sometimes human bodies have been found, Chen said.

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