Tijuana is home to many unpermitted houses with no trash service. The environmental group WILDCOAST is building another trash net across part of the Tijuana River to catch floating waste before it enters the ocean.
WILDCOAST plans to build another trash boom with financial help from the Benioff Foundation and the San Diego Foundation,
“We’re going to build it in another of the tributaries of the Tijuana River called Camino Verde,” she said.Courtesy of WILDCOASTWe visited the river estuary on a day that followed weeks of heavy rain, making for washed out roads and a valley teeming with trash and sewage runoff.“We have to start doing something. We say people need to be conscious of the problem. No-no! People have to start acting,” she said. “Don’t buy more plastic. Don’t wrap your food in plastic in the fridge.
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