I Missed It!

on September 21st,

volunteers world wide descended on their countries beaches, to have a massive world wide clear up, they collectively wanted to make a powerful statement about the poor state of our environment, but here is the thing, what happens if your beaches are pristine and there is no trash to collect? this is where a local mayor in South Korea thought out of the box, no rubbish for the volunteers to collect, no problem, in celebration of the International Coastal Cleanup Day, he had some rubbish dumped on the pristine beaches, well think of the waste in petrol and diesel all of those volunteers used to turn up and find there was nothing to do? a very elegant solution to the problem I thought, but apparently dumping a ton of plastic on the beach to give the volunteers something to do was not appreciated, “We brought in waste styrofoam and other coastal trash gathered from nearby areas so the 600 participants could carry out clean-up activities,” Lee Dong-jin, mayor of Jindo county, said in a statement. He claimed that 100 percent of the trash had been cleaned up by the volunteers and that none of it ended up in the ocean, so it didn’t cause any secondary pollution, Dong-jin said that the trash had been brought in by truck and dumped over the pristine sand of southwest Jindo, imagine the disappointment of the 600 volunteers arriving after some of them traveling so far if there was nothing to pick up? photograph adege/Pixabay, as an aside if the beaches are that pristine in South Korea, why not advertise them more for tourism?