This morning, after breakfast we hiked to the East village to pick up trash along the beach with the students at the village school. We brought trash bags, as they are limited on that side of the island. During out previous visit, a couple days before, the school teacher had shared with us that the children often went on these beach clean ups once or twice a week. This frequency showed as they seemed to have systems, as two children would carry each bag and hold it open for the rest of the students gathering trash to put in it. Once the bags were full they would be tied up and carried to the other side of the village, presumably to be burned, as there was no other trash pick up.
Most of the trash found consisted of styrofoam, shoes, sponge that appeared to, and plastic bottles. Though by no means, was there enough bags or time to pick up all of the trash.
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