ENVIRONMENT: Cleanup volunteers face citizen apathy

Despite new laws,  information programs and the efforts of thousands of volunteers, the results of the XXVIII annual cleaning of beaches, coasts and rivers leave the organizers fighting citizen apathy.

“The behavior of citizens is not changing in spite of the information provided. The message has not registered.

The work of volunteers with citizen responsibility is not being supported,” according to Promar, organizers of the activity.

This year, 4, 406 volunteers were mobilized in 54 cleaning points throughout the country and 44% of the sites, show “alarming” results.

65.5 tons of garbage were collected, of which 41 tons were in the capital city and 83% of the waste was non-biodegradable plastic

More than 150,000 varied items were removed from the different tributaries