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ENVIRONMENTALIST ASSOCIATION REMOVES 300 KG OF GARBAGE FROM THE CACELA VELHA BEACH
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olunteers from Association Oceans without Plastic collected 300 kilograms of garbage on the beach in Cacela Velha, in the municipality of Vila Real de Santo António, in an action to raise awareness of the cleaning of Ria Formosa, said its president on 21 June.
the village [of Cacela Velha] and with the landscape” of the cliff above the Ria Formosa, but he regretted that it was necessary this group of volunteers travel to the Algarve on purpose to do a job “that the Vila Real de Santo António City Council and the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests do not do”.
Tiago Duarte presides over the Association and was one of about 15 volunteers who took part in the collection work on 20 June, which took place at the eastern end of Ria Formosa, next to Cacela Velha.
“These are materials that have been there for years and we had to come from Lisbon to take it away,” said the president of the environmental association, thanking the collaboration of the Junta de Vila Nova de Cacela and the boatmen who cross the estuary to the beach located in barrier island in front of the town of Cacela Velha, a few kilometres from the parish headquarters.
“It went well, we picked up a lot of garbage, almost 300 kilograms, with incredible things, from a two-meter fibre boat, almost completely buried in the sand, and dozens of creels, wrapped in 300 metres of rope, which alone weighed more 100 kilograms,” said Tiago Duarte to the Lusa agency. The same source said that he visited this part of the coast of the Faro district for the first time this year and was “delighted with
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Tiago Duarte acknowledged that the team of volunteers “was unable to clean the whole island, because then there are microplastics”, but the action made it possible to give an “awareness brushstroke” to the need for authorities responsible for the area to clean it up all year . source: theportugalnews.com
July 2020
