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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Corporate executives greed and psycopathicness of the wealthy destroying Nature
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Quit dumping human waste that feeds it
Amazing
It is a putrid putrid smell.
Labor de titanes! Gracias por preocuparse por el medio ambiente, qué a todos nos corresponde pero desgraciadamente la mayoría no lo comprende
PS: CAT 5 and CAT 6 hurricanes coming soon. If Trump has his way, we won't see it coming either.
I rather go to the Caribbean islands
Can't it be turned into natural compost?
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.
I'm in need of your prayers and positive energy. Please keep me in your thoughts.
Nature doing what Nature does and rich resorts don't like it.
This seaweed problem has been affecting Punta Cana Big Time. Now I know where it comes from.
Free tip 👋🏼 If you want to enjoy sargassum free beaches, head over to Yucatan state. Progreso area is only 3.5 hours from Cancun and seaweed free beaches 🏖️
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.
For many centuries sargassum as been collected in Portugal for fertilizer. Is called here as "Moliço". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moli%C3%A7o
Seems they could make food from it.
Why dont they build biogas plants?
Thats a lot of free energy and free fertilizer swimming there
I would book that resort just so as not to deal with the sargassum.
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. 🛳️
Good idea
So cool how these workers work smarter not harder.
Invasive 😂 I imagine the seaweed was there longer than the Americans on holiday there
I'm favoured, $60k every week! I can now give
back to the locals in my community and also
support God's work and the church. God bless
America.
Chinese: we'll eat that stuff.
It can be used as sea weed base organic fertilizer
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.
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.
I thought it is best to leave the sargasum because it keeps the beach from eroding.
It’s yummy food to some ppl
Excellent fertilizer or animal feed
free fertilizer
Super cool this resort puts so much effort into maintaining the beach and returning the sand!