Posted on 07/24/2018 10:50:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
Come for the beaches, say tourism ads for the Dominican Republic.
But it has some beaches you might want to skip right now.
The Caribbean nation is known for sapphire seas and ivory beaches, but it is grappling with waves of garbage washing up on its shores, a vivid reminder of the presence of thousands of tons of plastic in the world’s oceans.
Those piles, most notably the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” are usually far from human settlements, to say nothing of resort destinations.
But instead of visitors relaxing on Montesinos Beach in the capital, Santo Domingo, there has been an altogether different scene, one unlikely to wind up on a postcard: hundreds of city workers and volunteers who have been waging an uphill battle against wave after wave of sludgy garbage.
Images have shown teams using pikes, shovels and excavators to lift the garbage, only to be met with new waves carrying even more.
Sixty tons of garbage have been collected on the beach since last week, Reuters reported. The haul included plastic bottles and Styrofoam takeout boxes, Parley for the Oceans, an organization that works to reduce plastic waste in the world’s oceans, said in a statement.
The images are shocking, but perhaps not for people who live in the Dominican Republic.
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Oh...thought they were talking about a DNC convention!
From Africa ?
Haiti.
Washing down from NY/NJ?
United Nations should pay the DM to process the junk.
Yep.................
Weather is here.
Wish you were beautiful!................
To fail to mention WHERE the garbage came from, or WHY seems politically convenient. It’s either from a “Shithole” nation, or yes, it’s from the Hurricane damage of PR?
One of my better nurses at the nursing home was from there. Had a ton of them from Africa.
And so while they bring up the scare of garbage in the Pacific ocean, it really is their own garbage coming back.
it is easy enough to figure out the origin... overturned garbage scow or hurricane wash...
burn it for fuel.
Shithole
Dress like a lady
Wiretaped
The left heads explode but I understand.
We speak the same language.
Freegards
The Dominican Republic shares an island with the dirt-bag nation of Haiti. That’s where all this trash originates.
One of my better nurses at the nursing home was from there. Had a ton of them from Africa.
Hit by a car whilst on my bicycle, twenty days hospital.
I used to ask the ones from Nigeria if they carried a gun when they went out, for the lions and tigers?
They said the only ones were in the zoo!
They all took very good care of me.
Even had one male nurse, a former United States Marine.
Maybe Nurse Ratched, came while I was asleep? (the first week or so)
All pleasant and helpful.
“The plastic waste washing onto Montesinos Beach comes from the Ozama River, which flows into the Caribbean nearby.”
[And so while they bring up the scare of garbage in the Pacific ocean, it really is their own garbage coming back. ]
Another agenda driven “news” article.
So they’re creating their own mess, eh? Imagine that.
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