I'm not shocked one bit lack of Education and this is the kind of stuff that happens.
What exactly are we debating? It is a bunch of garbage washed up ashore. Does that make Puerto Plata not amazing? Not pretty but garbage washes up in a lot of places in the DR.
Are you surprised at this? Obviously, you have seen garbage build up in other places in the DR. I am trying to understand what we are debating.
I’ve never seen this amount of debris on any of the remote beaches I’ve been on. I see persistent plastic, mostly water bottles, bits of polypropylene fishing rope, bleach bottles, etc. usually above the highwater zone, washed up during storms. I’ve also been on many beaches in the Samana area. Small amounts of persistent plastics but nothing like this.
We have had other threads on garbage washing up, some of the pictures were rather surprising. So, these photos in Puerto Plata do not surprise me. As Seamonkey posted there are areas on the Malecon in Santo Domingo that look as bad or worse than this. As I said it is not pretty to look at and sad it is happening but surprising, not at all.
I'm debating that why DR govt don't do anything even the mayor or whatever. They think resorts and hotels and cruise is important? That is the problem
How long has the garbage been there? Do we know that there is not something being done? Water looks rather muddy so I am wondering did a storm pass through recently pushing most of this ashore. You posted the photos from FB but not the context on what the posts may have been about. Maybe one of our DR1 members from that area (PP) can add to this.
You can’t jam millions of people into a coastal zone, people who throw their waste everywhere, cover everything with concrete and pavement, and be surprised when this to happens. Other countries have the same problems, Thailand, etc. Many island nations in the South Pacific are far from pristine. On Playa Dorada beach which is kept very clean, all you have to do is walk past the El Pueblito beachfront and continue towards Puerto Plata. The debris starts at that point.
