In Denmark, a city pays to clean up beach garbage and dump it into the sea, as reported by National Geographic Russia, citing a report by journalists from the national broadcasting corporation Danmarks Radio.
It turned out that a bulldozer picks up seaweed and plastic from the beach in the Danish municipality of Slagelseand dumps them into the sea. All this happens quite officially, as part of a local waste management program. The work costs one million krones (about $ 150,000).
At the same time, Deputy Mayor Willam Christensen sees nothing wrong with this method. He clarified that large pieces of plastic are not dumped into the sea. And the small ones, in his opinion, “will get there anyway”.
Earlier, the State Secretary of the Ecological Chamber of Russia, Vadim Petrov, said that it is tourists who form more than a quarter of plastic waste entering the marine environment. As EcoTourism Expert reported, environmentalists believe that coastal areas receive nearly 80 percent of all tourism, and this destructive pattern is being repeated everywhere. However, it is well known that plastic waste kills wild animals, contaminating food chains and increasingly enters the human body through food and drinking water.
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