They start at the Foce, The most important of the Sarno sources located north-west of the city of the same name, Three days of sampling of the river. At the park 5 Sensi, At the foot of the Monaco valley that stationed on the Trebucchi plan, The first two samples of the water of the Riveolo in question took place by Legambiente and the CNR on the sidelines of the 'Curiamo project, Let's live, We participate the Sarno ', with the support of the foundation with the South. To identify, identify and verify the quantity of microplastic substances that are polluting our seas, The 'Manta network' has been used, whose name recalls the similarity to the large fish similar to the breed. It is a particular frame, Equipped with a filtered water flow meter (flow, ndr) To relate the amount of microplastics found, holding a Nylon network. In the latter's shirts, tiny fragments are trapped: from those visible to the naked eye to those who measure themselves in micron, that is, in cents of millimeters. The network, essentially, filter the water in which it was immersed and the fragments of the sample are subsequently conducted in a collector placed at the end. The plastic material collected by this special equipment will be analyzed later through chemical-physical and morphological characterization techniques. In the presence of Dr. Stefania di Vito of the Legambiente Scientific Office, of Dr. Mariacristina Cocca – researcher of the Institute for Polyimers, Composites and biomaterials of the CNR -, of Adim and some volunteers of the Civil Service of Legambiente is the adventure of the immersion of two different networks at different times, both with a standard duration of ten minutes. In the first sampling, a network was used 300 micron while in the second one net with tightest shirts, that is to say from 500 micron. Despite the two diving of the 'manta', forms of life have been found, In the previous test to the first "draft" unfortunately traces of plastic material have already been found in an area that – finding himself at the source and far from industrial and sewage exhausts – it should be uncontaminated. Those who were completed on Wednesday morning 4 December are just some of the different samples that will be made along the course of the river, thus reaching his mouth in the Tyrrhenian Sea in front of the Scoglio di Rovigliano on the border between Castellammare di Stabia and Torre Annunziata. A report that will serve to take note of the Sarno situation and set in motion all the initiatives aimed at protecting and safeguarding the watercourse as well as citizens' health.
