Playa Macao recovers 677 kilos of waste in a single cleanup day
The Cap Cana Foundation organized a cleanup day on September 18 at Playa Macao, in La Altagracia, with more than 100 volunteers including staff, residents and tourism sector partners. Together they removed 677.4 kilograms of waste packed into 88 bags, as reported by Suelocaribe.
Macao is one of the most visited beaches by tourists staying in the Punta Cana and Bávaro area, and also one of the hardest hit by visitor volume. The fact that a private foundation can rally over a hundred people in a single day to pull out those 677 kilos says a lot about how the sector treats spaces that are not just its own, but the destination's.
The useful reading sits in the provincial effect: a clean beach keeps the visitor experience intact, extends the life of the product and reinforces the very reason travelers pick La Altagracia, with everything that means for tax revenue and local jobs. Coastal cleanup stops being a symbolic gesture when it is measured in kilos and repeated.
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