Author Name: Carribean Channel, Cuba TV.
This story was originally published on canalcaribe.ict.cu. [1]

Important this summer: keep the sea clean

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Date: 2021-10

It was less than 9 in the morning and there were no less than 15 cans floating in the water of that small beach. Almost on the shore, many fish swam. Out in the sand broken bottles, a man collected the garbage in the sand and threw it into a container moored in a tree.

The evening before, surely the people who were in that small beach enjoyed their family in the water, drinking beer the adults, the children eating sweets and playing with a disposable glass to a piece of wood that were found on the shore and I can affirm this scene, because on this same beach since my childhood I have seen these incorrect behaviors. All that garbage, waste of the bathers, is left almost all in the water, that same water that refreshes us, but that is not our home, but of the fish, plants and other marine animals.

It is very unpleasant to have to swim surrounded by cans, cardboard and plastic and what should be a day of family distraction to be overshadowed by the bad behavior of others, because walking in the sand a child can be injured with a broken bottle, for example.

Are not bathers responsible for caring for and protecting the beach? Why do they throw garbage into the water as if they were not interested in the ecosystem and marine animals in any way that is affected so much by garbage? Is there a strict enough laws in Cuba to protect the beaches? Are these rigorous enough? These fish can confuse garbage with food and die in this way. According to a scientific study published in Europapress, a plastic bottle takes at least 500 years to degrade on the seabed and a plastic cup or bag 50 years. Caring for the beach should be a duty of all or perhaps we would like people to visit our home and leave it full of garbage. Likewise marine inhabitants feel, when human beings dirty and throw food and garbage at home in their own way. Maybe the laws do not solve the problem, but the conscience of each person.

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