For decades, the city’s wetland has been used as a landfill for discarded wrecks, leaking microplastics and pollutants and posing a risk to others on the water
The wrecks are a threat to other vessels – a boat’s engine may be damaged if it passes over them. But they are an even bigger threat to the ecosystem, leaking chemicals, fuel and microplastics as the boats disintegrate in the water.
Paolo Cuman looks for wrecks along the canals of the lagoon. He leads a grassroots organisation to monitor the health of the water.Only the wrecks of abandoned vessels mar the scene. For the most part they are small, low-powered motorboats, orHe spots the relic of a vessel: “See this fishing boat? I remember when it used to bring the fish to Mestre [his neighbourhood] 40 years ago! Looks like it has been discarded for three decades at least,” he says.
“There are boats that have been abandoned for 20 or 30 years that are in very bad condition,” says Davide Poletto, executive director of theorganisation. These release chemical contaminants as they break down, he says.
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