{"id":2015,"date":"2025-06-18T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:25:22","slug":"hold-msc-accountable-for-their-mess-on-our-shores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/petiton\/2015\/hold-msc-accountable-for-their-mess-on-our-shores\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold MSC Accountable for their Mess on Our Shores!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/07\/d29dd37c-4-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/07\/d29dd37c-4-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/07\/d29dd37c-4-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/07\/d29dd37c-4-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/07\/d29dd37c-4-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/07\/d29dd37c-4-453x340.jpeg 453w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southasia-stateless\/2025\/07\/d29dd37c-4.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Greenpeace activists displayed a representation of the corporate polluter, shipping company MSC, at Thiruvananthapuram\u00a0, Kerala, India. \u00a9 Greenpeace\/Santhosh Kaviyoor<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>The MSC ELSA 3 shipwreck is spreading plastic pellets and other hazardous cargo across South Asia\u2019s coastline \u2014 from the shores of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in India, all the way to the coasts of Sri Lanka. While our communities face the possibility of poisoned waters, dead marine life, and destroyed livelihoods, <strong>the polluter hides behind silence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>This is a grave environmental and humanitarian crisis and our taxpayers should not have to bear the cost for the negligence of a corporate giant!<\/p>\n\n<p>We demand MSC:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create and share a transparent action plan to clean up the mess with independent monitoring<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Take financial liability for the loss of livelihood and marine biodiversity, and compensate our coastal communities.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>This disaster knows no borders, and neither should justice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Sign the petition to demand accountability now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Sign the petition to demand accountability now.<\/h3>\n\n<script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/js-eu1.hsforms.net\/forms\/embed\/v2.js\"><\/script>\n<script>\n  hbspt.forms.create({\n    portalId: \"143144962\",\n    formId: \"ffd08661-dae4-4430-a194-8a9b95d51cf5\",\n    region: \"eu1\"\n  });\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MSC ELSA 3 shipwreck is spreading plastic pellets and other hazardous cargo across South Asia\u2019s coastline \u2014 from India\u2019s shores of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, to Sri Lanka\u2019s beaches&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":2011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"Oceans","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"p4-page-type":[35],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceans","p4-page-type-petiton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19427,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/19427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}