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As part of World Beach Cleanup Day, various organizations held a day to collect garbage on beaches and riverbanks in the country, to raise awareness about reducing the use of plastics that damage marine and river ecosystems.
The activity, organized by the Ministry of the Environment, was supported by young people from the Salesian Ecological Movement and the Environmental Commission of the Employees and Professors Cooperative of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD).
Father Willem Batista, from the Salesian Ecological Movement, highlighted the importance of these actions: “In the country, we need to reduce the use of plastic to protect our rivers and seas.”
Likewise, the Volunteers of the Environmental Commission organized cleaning in the Teachers Club, collecting 75 plastic bags and 40 containers of other materials, teaching the correct way to discard garbage to prevent it from reaching the coast.
The organizers stressed that these days aim to encourage people to adopt responsible habits, avoiding single-use plastics and helping to preserve biodiversity.
World Beach Cleaning Day is celebrated annually to motivate communities, volunteers, and institutions to take care of beaches, rivers, and seas, promoting a cleaner and healthier environment.
Greg! To reduce the use of plastic is one thing, but the real problem in DR is that the general population needs to be educated not to throw the garbage everywhere as they do it all the time. This is the real problem. People don’t have a respect for their own country. Throwing garbage everywhere, from the car windows while driving, from their houses in the street, just walking on the street and throwing right there. It’s a disaster, and it is in the brains of the local people that needs to be changed!!!
We need one of these every day.
Why is beach clean up a big deal? Everyday the beach ( and water) should be clean. Dominicans are dirty people, they trash the beach because they don’t care. Where are trash receptacles for the trash ? Nowhere! I see lots of styrofoam cups in the water. Why? I see lots of styrofoam take out boxes all over the beach, why? Bottles everywhere. Trash under water, didn’t think of that, did you. Yup, Dominicans use the water to dispose their trash, ‘ ‘cause I see it while swimming
Better education would help. Hell, education would be a good start