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After each rainy and stormy season, tons of solid waste from elsewhere flood into the 300-meter-beach Tịnh Kỳ in Quảng Ngãi city posing serious pollution and terrifying local residents. The major components of the waste are domestic and plastic waste. According to the inspection of the Quảng Ngãi city’s People’s Committee on 1^st January, there was about more than 20 tons of waste on the beach.

About 20 tons of domestic waste landed on beach Tịnh Kỳ at the end of December 2021. Source of photo: https://dantri.com.vn

This phenomenon has happened for a long time, i.e., every year, after each rainy and stormy season, mentioned a local resident. Normally, the local residents clean up the waste, the latest campaign was in April 2021, however, this year the amount of waste was too much for them to handle, said Phạm Ngọc Thanh – leader of An Vĩnh village. The solid waste is discharged into rivers and follows the river estuaries to the sea and land to this beach, explained Nguyễn Hoài Thanh, chairman of People’s Committee of Tịnh Kỳ Commune.

Sources & further information: “Choáng với ‘núi rác’ tấp vào bờ biển Quảng Ngãi” at https://tuoitre.vn, “Bãi biển Quảng Ngãi tràn ngập hàng chục tấn rác thải” at https://laodong.vn, and “Rùng mình với “núi” rác thải trôi vào bờ biển” at https://dantri.com.vn, accessed on 4 January 2022.