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One of Lima's top beaches to close Sunday over pollution
Officials will collect nearly 20 tons of trash left weekly by up to 70,000 visitors at Agua Dulce beach during a one-day closure to restore usability.
- Agua Dulce beach will be closed for one day on Sunday so municipal teams can clean the shoreline, officials said.
- Nearly 20 tons of weekly rubbish and crowds up to 70,000 on summer weekends have strained Agua Dulce, city officials report.
- Officials noted ongoing neglect, saying `This has been going on for years`, after municipal crews cleared half of a roasted pig buried in the sand, officials said.
- Authorities said they do not want the beach closure to become permanent, urging better visitor behaviour, as Lima, home to more than 10 million people, faces pressure to protect its beaches.
- The one-day closure is being used as a public-awareness step by municipal authorities, who said the best message they could send to visitors was to close the beach.
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In Peru, it is one of the most emblematic beaches in Lima that will close to the bathers. The mayor of one of the coastal districts of the capital wants to educate holidaymakers about the pollution they generate on the beach. According to the municipality, it is almost 20 tons of plastic bottles, glass and food leftovers that are picked up in the sand every week.
Peru’s popular Agua Dulce beach to close for a day as heaps of trash overwhelm coastline
LIMA, Feb 14 — One of the most popular beaches in Peru’s capital Lima will close for one day tomorrow, in a rare move by authorities who say that heaps of garbage left each weekend has made the cherished spot unusable.Agua Dulce, which stretches for about a kilometer (0.6 miles), hosts up to 70,000 visitors every weekend during the summer season from December to March.“This measure is a way to make vacationers aware of the pollution they are gen…
One of the most popular and iconic beaches in the Peruvian capital, Lima, will be closed tomorrow. Authorities say this exceptional measure is necessary because tens of thousands of beachgoers leave behind enormous amounts of trash every weekend.
The Peruvian authorities will close this Sunday, in the summer season, one of the most emblematic and crowded beaches in Lima due to the pollution caused by the large amount of garbage left by thousands of bathers each weekend, the municipality of Chorrillos reported this Friday.
Closing Agua Dulce, even for 24 hours, may seem like a drastic measure, but it is, more than anything else, a confession of failure. It is recognizing that our society has not achieved something as basic as teaching its citizens to pick up what they carry and respect what is everyone’s. It is hard to admit it, but that the most popular beach in Lima has to close for tons of garbage tells us that the problem is not only of a poorly organized muni…
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