"Sea trash" season reappears in Vung Tau

(HNMO) - Since the beginning of June 2023, tourist beaches in the coastal city of Vung Tau (Ba Ria - Vung Tau province) have been invaded by a large amount of ocean waste brought in by the monsoon from offshore to shore.

It is estimated that every day, hundreds of tons of garbage wash up on the beaches. Vung Tau City has mobilized a large number of people and vehicles to clean up, but with such a large amount of garbage, the machines and people can only collect a portion of the garbage that washes up on the beaches. On June 10, reporters from the Hanoi Moi Newspaper were present to record the latest images of this incident.

According to Vung Tau Urban Construction and Environmental Services Joint Stock Company (VESCO), when the rainy season begins in the South, a large amount of garbage in the Mekong Delta flows out to sea through river mouths. The wind carries the garbage to the coast of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province.

This garbage is not household garbage, it is usually aquatic life living in freshwater canals in the West, flowing down the river to the sea and washing ashore.

So the garbage is mainly duckweed. By the end of the year, the garbage is mainly seaweed, waste from offshore fishing boats blown ashore by the wind.

Every day, sanitation workers have to use manual methods to collect trash on beaches.

The work is quite hard, because there is currently no machine that can replace humans in this job in Vung Tau.

An environmental sanitation worker said that currently, they collect about 3 tons of garbage every day, only a small fraction of the amount of garbage that washes ashore.

Vung Tau will have to endure this garbage flooding its shores for about another week, before the amount of garbage from the West flowing down the river to the sea gradually decreases.

Source: https://beta.hanoimoi.com.vn/mua-rac-bien-tai-xuat-tai-vung-tau-445170.html