WATCH: Then and now – beach clean-ups continue
While the bulk of debris has reduced, there is still plenty of plastic left on Blue Lagoon Beach.
MORE than three weeks have passed since beach clean-up operations began at Blue Lagoon Beach when masses of plastic pollution washed up after the KZN floods.
NPO’s The Litter Boom Project and Adopt-a-River recorded more than 2.5tons of plastic in the first two days of the clean-up at Blue Lagoon Beach on April 13 and 14. Meanwhile, clean up operations in south Durban at uShaka Beach yielded similar results.
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Berea Mail returned to Blue Lagoon Beach today to see how much work is yet to be done. While the bulk of the debris has been reduced significantly, as most of the bigger plastic items have been removed, there are still plenty of smaller plastic shards among the organic debris on the beach.
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Take a look at the progress in this video, showing then and now comparison.
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