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Weeds - "We need to go and make sure you can't buy them anymore."

The ecological damage already caused by weeds that had 'escaped' household gardens was tiny compared to the potential threat posed by plants sold at gardening retailers.

"We've introduced so many plants into Australia now that, when you go for a walk in your local bush, one in eight of the plant species you see there have been introduced. At least three-quarters of weeds established in the Australian environment have come from escaped garden plants, according to a 2004 report by biosecurity strategist John Virtue."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-04-06/gar
#plants #flora #weeds #gardens #culture #BushDumping #dumping #horticulture #industry #markets #regulation #Bellingen #InvasiveSpecies #NSW

The Mediterranean Sea is abused as a rubbish dump

"Human-caused marine debris has already reached the deepest point in the Mediterranean Sea. We have also found evidence of the boats' dumping of bags full of rubbish, as revealed by the pile-up of different types of waste followed by an almost rectilinear furrow. Unfortunately, as far as the Mediterranean is concerned, it would not be wrong to say that 'not a single inch of it is clean."
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phys.org/news/2025-03-human-ma
#MarineDebris #waste #dumping #pollution #EU #sea #boats #MarinePollution #Biodiversity #marine #habitat #MediterraneanSea

Phys.org · Human-caused marine debris has already reached the deepest point in the Mediterranean SeaBy University of Barcelona