Guatemala landfill feeds ‘trash islands’ hundreds of miles away in Honduras

Mongabay
Dec 23, 2022, 7:30 am108 pts
GUATEMALA CITY — After heavy rains, hotel workers and other residents in Honduras walk up and down beaches picking up everything from plastic bottles to toys to medical waste. They’ve become experts at garbage cleanup. It piles up in the sand if they don’t move quickly, and then tourists might complain or…

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