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Island Of Garbage Washes Onto Caye Caulker
posted (September 26, 2013)
This morning residents of Caye Caulker and San Pedro woke up to find mountains of shredded garbage washed up on their shorelines. Residents of Caye Caulker say it came from the east of the island, but it piled up on the shore in ugly disarray. It's an eyesore for sure, but our experience suggests that this is the same kind of refuse that has been known to wash up on the coasts of Placencia and Punta Gorda in the past. In those cases, the garbage, piles of it came from Honduras, which seems to be the same case here.

Typically, such islands of garbage can be seen floating on the sea, and a change in the winds could bring them on shore.

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