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Cabarete beach is a garbage dump since this weekend , will take many month if not even years to clean up the mess the Dominican's left behind.

I make it a point to avoid any place that the locals congregate during Semana Santa to avoid the drunks and the garbage.

Education always come's out cheaper than ignoance in the end! If the Govt. plans on the development of tourism to float the boat to the bank then the dept. of education is going to have to be overhauled and start teaching the children it doesn't matter if your Mami & Popi throw garbage in the street YOU DON'T THROUGH GARBAGE IN THE STREET!

Maybe if whoever is responsible for refuse collection provided adequate containers people could be persuaded to use them! There also seems to be a total lack of any provision for re-cycling here, at least as far as I can see. Re-cycling is not only envionmentally friendly but would also provide additional employment and revenue from the sale of metal, glass, paper etc. Maybe there are such facilities but I have yet to see any and the absence of refuse bins results in piles of garbage left in the streets awaiting collection. More bins and a re-cycling campaign might begin to help to tidy everywhere up. Garbage left lying around is not a good means of promoting a thriving tourist industry!

This is a good initiative. More education and fees for the local on the subject.
DR was the first country in the world to use recycling as a way of living.

Does anybody remember back in the seventies the botelleros in carretas going around the neighborhoods collecting them and paying you five cents back then? Wasn't it recycling??
Also everytime you bought a mambi or soda in a colmado you always went back to return the bottles and collect the money? Wasn't it recycling??? So lets bring back the botelleros.

Can they clean the beaches from all of the solicitators and prostitutes???

You beat me to the punch xwill7 ...I'LL give you the ribbon . But yes , what do you think the Hells Angels are doing in town these days ..lol . It reminds me of when the Rolling Stones hired the Hells Angels for personal security at one of thier shows years ago. lol ,As IVE said already , with half of the Dominicans north coast police force doing time , somebody has to make sure that all those Russian mobsters have enough security in these parts.lol

I agree 100% with Popo. Let's get Señor Botella back on the street with his push cart, picking up glass bottles and we could probably get rid of half the sanitation problem. As far back as I could remember, I just don't recall any of these trash problems we have today. It is shameful and a total disaster to see thousands of Dominicans congregate in a small area, only to leave their environment excessively polluted. How did we end up like that? I was so embarrased when, I invited a friend to the DR to expose him to Dominican culture outside the resort, only to be embarrassed by the conduct of many of my compatriots. While, growing up as a child, I lived in Santiago and if I am not mistaken, the city was considered one of the, if not the cleanest in the country. Unfortunately, not true today. Again I asked, what happened? Politicos, maybe? We have advanced so much, but fallen far behind in other areas. You know what the solution to societies ills? It is basically to go back to basics

Thanks Guillermone,
I agrees with you lets go back to basics. The same happened to me when a decade ago I took someone I new to DR out side the resort!
We also need to get rid of Styrofoam products and bring the "macutos". We also were one of the first countries to use canvas bags back then we used to call them macutos made out of the rice and flour bags. Can you believe that!