Beach Trash
Jamel, Haiti
Summer 2013
Tuesday, July 9- I am standing on the beach which is just half a block away from the camp compound. If I keep walking on the beach, in a few hours, I would be in the Dominican Republic, a country which prides itself in its pristine beaches and tourism. But I am not in the Dominican Republic. I am on the dirty beaches of Haiti. There does not seem to be any solid waste management program in this country. So people and businesses must resort to get rid of their own trash. Most people just throw their trash on the ground with no regard to the environment.
The businesses, here on the beach, have a bigger trash problem than the average individual. So they take their trash and dump it right on the beach, near the edge of the tide. Goats, donkeys and pigs feast on this trash all day. Then what is not consumed by these feral animals is swept away by the high tide. It is heartbreaking to look at this mound of trash. And as I stare at it, I wonder how much of this debris makes its way to the Dominican Republic.
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