Beach Clean Up day in Manuel Antonio

We piled the truck high with trash bags, gloves, leaflets on reclying, marine debris, project aware and the blue flag program and headed to the beach Playa Espadilla Sur in Manuel Antonio.
At 9am we were about the only people on the beach, most normal people still in bed after a Friday night out. Doris, Alonso, Doris, Dennis and I were joined by people from Arenas de Mar, Costa Verde, Fourtrax and The Falls.
We set off along the beach each armed with a bag and a pair of gloves on. The beach looks clean from a distance but when you get close up you can see a lot of small to medium size litter. We found the most of plastic bags for drinks, contaniers for take away food, bottle caps and cigarette buts. A lot of the larger trash has gone, picked up on previous clean up days, but there is still a long way to g if we are going to get the blue flag back for the beach!
One stall holder on the beach offered to help and he picked up a bunch of trash that was in the street and threw it in the bushes! To his benifit he did go and pick it out of the bushes after we told him that was not the solution for a clean beach!
It was a fun day and with many people supporting the clean up campaigns in Quepos and Manuel Antonio, we are really starting to see a difference.
Kath
www.oceansunlimitedcr.com
www.goprocostarica.com

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