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Environmental pollution

Letters to the Editor

Pot, kettle, Mr Consul?

June 27, 2014 Dear Sir, A short while back the US Consulate General was lightening quick in informing US citizens about his concern over Bermuda’s beaches. Now that we read in the Atlanta Journal Constitution that 10 percent of all US beaches are con...
Jul 01, 2014
Environment

Free talk tonight on plastic pollution in our waters

The team behind a major survey of plastic pollution in the waters around Bermuda will tonight talk about their findings. Plastic Tides — which carried out an 11-day trip around Bermuda on paddleboards — looked at plastic pollution in the ocean. Now t...
Jun 26, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Some reasons for men to be proud to be men

June 22, 2014 Dear Sir, I read with interest the article by Edward Harris on littering, but thought that it was spoiled by a cheap pandering aside to the effect that litterers tend to be mainly male. A quick google search finds no obvious evidence o...
Jun 26, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Trash bins needed at Bermuda’s beaches

June 22, 2014 Dear Sir, Whilst recently vacationing at Landmark, my family spent the first 10 or so minutes almost every day cleaning up the beach area there, mostly of plastics, bottles etc. There being no trash receptacles or bins an...
Jun 23, 2014
Environment

Plastic waste in Island’s coastal waters is a cause for concern

Bermuda’s waters are polluted with high levels of plastic waste, according to an international team of conservationists. The Plastic Tides team are spending nearly a fortnight on the Island, using paddleboards to sample the seas for micro-plastics — ...
Jun 23, 2014
Other

Scientist leading Bermuda water study is killed in landslide

A renowned scientist leading a study on Bermuda’s water quality has been killed in a landslide on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean. Quebec medical researcher Éric Dewailly, 59, was one of two people who died on Tuesday when a cliff above them colla...
Jun 19, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Nauseating signs

May 21, 2014 Dear Sir, What a scandal! What an outrage! The number of horrible signs and posters springing up all over the Island is quite nauseating! Our Government sits back and do nothing. SMH
Jun 12, 2014
Environment

Island’s major beaches meet US standards

The water off Bermuda’s beaches remain clean, Government said last night. A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said that regular monitoring at beaches so far this year had found no pollution problems. Beaches checked include tourist magnets lik...
Jun 07, 2014
Environment

Crusade to banish plastic pollutants from the oceans

Beauty product microbeads — they are pretty, they make your skin tingle, they could be destroying the environment. The tiny plastic beads that have become popular additions to body washes, facial scrubs and shampoos have become the target of a new c...
Jun 05, 2014
Local Business

Restaurateurs back City’s beefed-up rules on fat disposal

A new City of Hamilton (CoH) fat, oil and grease (FOG) policy is supported “wholeheartedly” by the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce (BCC) restaurant division. FOG from commercial kitchens has been pinpointed as one cause of sewage balls washing up on Berm...
May 21, 2014
Environment

Groups call on Govt to keep word on emissions

Environmentalists are calling on Government to keep its word and introduce vehicle emission limits. Legislation setting out acceptable levels of air pollution has yet to be tabled in Parliament, even though millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money has...
May 14, 2014
Other

Expert: Vehicle emissions, not pesticides, are killing toads

Vehicle emissions and other pollutants are partly to blame for falling amphibian numbers in Bermuda, according to an expert. Jamie Bacon, a research associate with the Bermuda Zoological Society, told The Royal Gazette that emissions from cars, bikes...
May 14, 2014
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