The neighbors and environmentalists who joined the cleaning day of the El Pescado stream, located in the south of La Plata, They collected more than 150 consortium bags with rescued waste from the bed of that watercourse Located in the Parque Sicardi and Ignacio Correa area.
The call had been launched by athletes from La Plata organized to clean up the water course located in the south of La Plata, whose flow dropped due to the intense drought. This climatic factor exposed a large amount of residue that was attached to the bed.
According to what he told 0221.com.ar Norberto, one of the activists, there were mostly plastic bottles, glass and nylon bags that remain stuck in the mud. “It didn’t look like new garbage, because now we are maintaining the creek,” he explained. And he added that virtually nothing salvaged is recyclable.
Thus, once the work day was over, the bags accumulated on the side of the street that runs near the stream and were transferred in trucks. And there were dozens of residents of Parque Sicardi who joined the cleaning day of the El Pescado stream this Friday, the only one considered “uncontaminated” in the region
Beyond the waste removed from the bed of El Pescado, the neighbors made a surprising discovery. It is the structure of a barge that the neighbors believe must be very old. “With the downspout, the wooden structure was almost on the surface and we managed to remove it without breaking it”Norberto told.
“We believe that it is many years old, so now we will see with specialists if it can be studied to find out its origin,” he added.
The call for the work day was launched by the organization “Andar Extremo”, which considers that if “the actions are multiplied it is possible to generate a change, everywhere the dirt emerges, the plastics fly and neglect floods the streets and life outdoors. But if we change the chip and choose a place and make it beautiful so that the next person who passes by thinks ‘what a beautiful place’ everything would be different”.
The premise is “to clean what people don’t take care of and one day to be able to reverse this by adding wills and values”.
Although the activity was initially scheduled for Saturday at 8, it was finally brought forward to this Friday due to weather conditions. “The stream suffers the worst drought in years and we can see waste that was under water, let’s take advantage of removing it and hope it rains so that we can soon enjoy the wetland again,” they stated in the call.
