With the help of our entire community and some institutions, we have managed to improve the situation by regularly conducting beach clean-ups. Every year we see how little by little the amount of plastic that reaches the beach sand is reduced.
Cleaning our beaches has been hard work but we have managed to remove plastic that had been lying around for years on our ocean beaches and with the higher tides it moved from one place to another and always ended up on our beaches.
The beach is the only place where the oceans can fulfill their natural cleaning process. In the past, the tides left wood and logs on the beaches of the Pacific coast and made the water clean without solids. Now, the tide also leaves the plastic on the sand of the Pacific coast and if the sand on the beaches is not clean then the plastic returns to the sea. There is no place where the sea can be cleaned, this makes beach clean-ups a necessity and priority for cleaning Costa Rica’s ocean beaches.