"But keeping a clean environment, particularly, keeping their beach clean is a concept that apparently, has not seeped into their minds. Plastic and all kinds of rubbish are just left scattered ashore. Have they ever engaged themselves in the coastal clean-up of their own beach, one could ask, and certainly get differing answers. Why not, one might ask again, to more differing answers..." (Earlier post).
Out of curiosity, we took time to have a look at Sayao Beach to check if the area has really been
cleaned up, as reported to us by a resident, of all sorts of plastic debris that occupied the
whole area, including the water that was simply dirty, the last time we were there. We hadn’t been
there for over a month, but what we saw was an obvious attempt or attempts to rid the entire
area of plastic as it looked cleaner. But not quite. There were many piles of
rubbish just about ten meters away from the highest tide, and there were still
many longstanding plastic trapped in the growth. We were told that the youth
cleaners decided to just bury most of the hundreds upon hundreds of kilograms
of plastic within the beach periphery, and have identified a place they would
enclose with a fence where the remaining rubbish would be buried later.
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