High season is in full swing with the island buzzing of people. In the wake of this increase of people unfortunately also the amount of rubbish left behind dramatically increases.
On our weekly beach clean up 3 of our staff member (Tony, Alex and Koen) collected 25 kg of garbage just in a few hours.
The bulk of this was mainly glass bottles (left behind after a night of partying), cigarette butts, plastic bags. straws, batteries etc.
It goes without saying that what is left on the beach gets washed in the ocean and many items we carelessly leave behind are extremely dangerous for marine life.
Plastic bags can take upto 1000 years before nature can break them down and in the sea they are often mistaken for jelly fish which are a food source for many fish and turtles.
Plastic will never digest and slowly kills those who swallow it.
It is a bit the same story with cigarette butts which take upto 5 years for nature to break down and causes a lot of stomach damage to marine creatures who mistake this for food.
You can find more on the effects of trash and how long it takes nature to naturally desolve our garbage on the Green Fins website and on this download.
Hopefully we can all start to look out a little bit better and not carelessly leave behind garbage as it will kill many sea creature for many years to come.
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