Sri Lanka beach full of a lot of pollutants

Overseas network June 5, Sri Lanka Colombo port burning days near the "X-PRESSPEATL" cargo ship 2 began to part of the seabed, Sri Lanka Navy rescue team is salvaging, To prevent the 321 tons of fuel oil on board from leaking. Still, the chemicals and tiny plastic particles that sank into the sea have heavily polluted the ocean, causing Sri Lanka's worst environmental disaster to date, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Experts said that even if the salvage is successful, the effects of the pollution will be concentrated in 30 to 50 years.

The Straits Times previously reported that debris from the vessel had spread across 150km of coastline. According to the International Tanker Owners Federation for Pollution Prevention, the ship was carrying 1,486 containers containing chemicals such as nitric acid, sodium hydroxide and methanol, and about 400 containers containing small plastic particles. According to the report, if the tank of the sunken ship leaks, the pollutants will be spread thousands of kilometers in the sea with ocean currents, which will affect high latitudes.

While fish can expel tiny plastic particles, plankton trapped in the plastic can wash up on the shores of other countries and regions, damaging local ecosystems, according to a study by the French Institute for Maritime Exploitation. Experts say the phenomenon has been seen in the Fukushima nuclear disaster. He also said that even if the sunken fuel tanks could be sealed, future leaks would occur and contamination would only be delayed. (Wang Xiaoyu)

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