“We will have clean beaches and shores much earlier than usual,” explained the city authorities.
Between the coronavirus pandemic and the rainy weather, the New Year’s celebration on the famous Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro it looked quite opaque, but this Saturday a fact emerged to highlight: there was 50% less garbage to collect.
The municipal cleaning company COMLURB said that its service collected 320 tons of garbage after the Rio celebrations at the end of the year, less than half the annual average of 724.2 tons from 2018 to 2020.
That includes 167 tons collected in Copacabana after a 16-minute fireworks display on the beach, compared to the pre-pandemic average of 340.6 tons.
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“We will have clean beaches and shores much earlier than usual“Said the head of COMLURB, Flavio Lopes, while about 5,000 garbage collectors finished the cleaning work at 9:00 local time.
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After canceling their worldwide famous New Years holidays Last year due to covid-19, Rio took up a lower-key version this year, asking people to celebrate close to home and canceling concerts and public transportation.
The celebrations in Copacabana alone attracted a fraction of the record three million people two years ago, and the rainy weather was not conducive to a party that already had a rarefied atmosphere due to the omicron, a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus.
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