'Unable to Stop It': Plastic Garbage Covers Central American Rivers, Lakes and Beaches
AFP
Last Updated: SEPTEMBER 16, 2022, 08:26 IST
Ablanket of multi-colored plastic waste flowing in from tributaries covers Lake Suchitlan in El Salvador.
It is a sorry scene that has also become an all too common sight on the Caribbean beaches of Honduras, where thousands of tons of rubbish arrive from neighboring Guatemala.
Fizzy drink bottles, medication packets, tattered flipflops: all sorts of plastic rubbish can be found floating on 13,500-hectare (52 square mile) Lake Suchitlan, which serves as a reservoir for a power plant and is considered by UNESCO to be a wetland of international importance.
Local fishermen say the pollution forces tilapia and cichlid fish deeper into the artificial lake — the largest body of freshwater in the country — where they cannot be reached with fishing nets.
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