This Cancún Resort Fights 20,000 Tons of Invasive Seaweed Each Year | WSJ Booked

This Cancún Resort Fights 20,000 Tons of Invasive Seaweed Each Year | WSJ Booked
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Maintaining clean beaches takes a huge amount of work for resorts in Mexico and across the Caribbean, thanks to tons of seaweed that invades every year. Sargassum and seagrass can alter the pristine beaches by turning the water brown, making it smelly and bringing in flies and other insects. So how is this seaweed hurting popular tourism destinations being dealt with?

WSJ goes behind the scenes of one of the most innovative sargassum removal operations in Cancun to see what’s involved.

Chapters:
0:00 Seaweed issue at resorts
1:02 Removing sargassum
2:55 Sand and erosion
5:11 Managing through the summer

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  2. Feed it to the cows pigs chickens.
    Or compost it and sell it.
    Oh its full of pollution yet we eat clams wich filter pollution out of the water as they eat.

  3. Brazil is the top contribution throwing runoff nutrients from industrialization to the Amazon river ending in the atlantic creating a huge sargasum the size of Texas in the middle sof the Atlantic ending in the Caribbean… The world should put oressure to Brazil to stop doing this runoff.

  4. Illegal real estate development is the cause of the seaweed invasion. 🏗️ The tourism industry is far out of control in the ports and in the airports. 🤑 That is the problem with illegal immigration in the United States. ⛱️ Partly blame the tourism industry. 🛳️

  5. The irony is that the seaweed, spread thin, seems to create great dune protection and sand accumulation. Some raking is required to mound up and cover lightly with sand. Then, protect the sea oat plant area. Seaweed can be a great mulch for these sea grasses.

  6. Does it make good fertilizer? If it does, then it could make decent business opportunity for an organic fertilizer company. After all, it is free compost, plus you could sell the sand back to the beaches.

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