Haiti Celebrates World Environment Day 2018, beating plastic pollution

City of Pilate, Northern Haiti - View from Morne Calvaire

Plastic pollution is a very big problem in Haiti's major cities. Each and every day the Haitian people are consuming soft drinks stored in plastic bottles and throwing these plastic bottles in the streets of our cities.

A lot of these plastic bottles end up polluting our water canals, accumulating in our rivers, flooded farm lands, and our beaches.

Environmental issues in Haiti - A hospital parking lot loaded with plastic trash after a rainfall

If you want to know how much trash there is in Port-au-Prince take a look around after the a heavy rain fall.

This needs to stop. We Haitians need to be very active in protecting our environments.

What do you think about that?

Read more: Environmental issues in Haiti, Trash in Haiti, Plastic Recycling in Haiti, Pollution in Haiti, Environment

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