Surrounded by the Opera House, Circular Quay, Luna Park and of course the iconic Harbour Bridge, Sydney Harbour is the major contributor to the $21.9 billion Sydney tourism pumps into Australia’s economy each year.Sydney’s famous harbour is one of the most polluted waterways in the country, receiving around 15 Olympic-size swimming pools of pollutants each year. This horrific statistic makes one of our greatest tourism drawcards also one of our dirtiest.
Sydney Harbour receives around 15 Olympic-size swimming pools of pollutants each year. Picture: AlamyThe CSIRO estimates around 1560kg of plastic enters our waterways each hour, most of it coming into the harbour through stormwater drains. Stormwater drains act as a runway for plastic into Sydney Harbour and the ocean. Picture: Mark Evans.Big rainfall events result in even more plastic entering the harbour. Picture: Adam Taylor“I think if more people knew they would just be horrified. “Overwhelmingly … over half of everything we find is plastic bags. The other 50 per cent is at least made out of plastic.
“But we can fix this harbour and bring it back to where it was, but it’s pretty simple. If we kill our oceans, we kill ourselves.”
I play bullshit bingo with this particular 'news' site. The word 'shocking' is always the first word I tick off.
Sharks? Its sharks right?... 🦈
Just shows you how many people don't care about where the rubbish and litter end up.
Any idiot in the gov consider placing waste traps / filters over the storm water outlets? .. let me guess some fine grill will cost xxx billion dollars, yeah jobs for mates. Stunning and Brave.
Sydney is a dump
😂😂😂😂 ugliest place in the universe