Over 400 thou tonnes of oil products enter Mediterranean Sea annually

The Mediterranean Sea is the dirtiest in the world, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Spanish newspaper El Pais referring to leading experts of environment protection. According to data provided by Greenpeace and Spanish Institute of World Ocean Research "each cubic meter of Mediterranean water contains 33 types of waste and each liter contains 10 grams of oil products". "Over 400 thou tonnes of oil products is drained to the Mediterranean Sea the main source of waste are on-shore facilities though every year the sea is crossed by 12,000 vessels, 20% of which are tankers. annually,” the article reads. According to El Pais,