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The temporary Gloria, with winds of more than 100 km / h, rain of up to 500 liters per square meter and waves of 7 meters across the coast, has been classified as "historic" and "unprecedented by the Meteorological Service of Catalonia ( SMC), which recalls that it had not rained so much since 1932.

In addition to the billionaires material damage, also the Valencian Community, Aragon and Balearic Islands and the city of Malaga, the death toll from the storm increased to 13 after confirmation of the death of a 41-year-old Colombian man, whose lifeless body was found Four days after his disappearance. Still looking for three missing .

Precipitation accumulations of up to 516 liters of water per square meter in Lliurona (Girona), 1.5 meters of snow on the summits of the Girona Pyrenees, a persistent wind with gusts of more than 100 kilometers per hour - the maximum measured gust has been of 144 km / h in the Montseny-, and, above all, a maritime storm with waves of 7 meters across the coast and even up to 12 in the Ebro Delta, "unprecedented in some points", make Gloria one of the strongest storms since there are records.

But this storm has also returned garbage that was incorrectly discarded more than 30 years ago and aware of its durability over time and the environment as well as the damage it causes. No living organism is able to feed and degrade this petroleum derivative.

This was reported on Twitter by Marc Mínguez Alcaide, and advanced by the Diari of Girona that in a walk after the storm in Rosas, in the region of Alto Ampurdán in Gerona, has found a plastic container of a trendy ice cream in the 90s , a Tubí Tabí , and in perfect condition . "We have what we deserve," he says.

Miquel Brull, has hung on the social networks, another equal container of the ice cream of 1993, found by his nephew on the beach of Sant Antoni de Calonge , in the Lower Ampurdán.

His testimony has encouraged other tweeters to record the trash we generate and throw into nature. A bag of kikos from the 60s .

In just over half a century, we have gone from producing two million tons of plastic to more than 400 million a year . This material resists and is everywhere, even back forty, thirty years later, like this pot of clean dishes.

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