Forwarding Watch the Waste has just completed its prolog. After Senegal and the Cap Verde, the members of forwarding took again the course in search of traces of our pollution.
It is therefore in « Hann Bay » that the team of sailors put down foot to earth, this bay, one time blaze, was among the beautifulest in the world. But today, " the fifteen kilometres of beach which form the bay became one of the most polluted territories of the planet. (…) a true waste which occurred in less than fifty years ", brings back the crew on its website*.
Here, where concentrate big industrial facilities, wastewater is not either collected, or treated what portends dramatic impact on marine and terrestrial middle.
In the Cap Verde, east of Sal, the currents and the winds come to cart residues which are banked up with the feet of a discharge with open sky (see picture).
On this site, bank up themselves, inter alia, the remainders of materials having allowed the construction of the hotels described earlier. “Irony of fate, this beach is tacitly prohibited with the bathe because it is the privileged place of reproduction of the local marine tortoises”, the crew testifies.
Alacavelis took again the sea and holds its course towards the islands of the Antilles.
Surfrider, partner of this homeric adventure, is waiting a lot from the results of this expedition wich should end in a few months.
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