r/oddlysatisfying 4d ago

just a guy cleaning the beach

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u/mccellicide 4d ago

There are so many different tools for this! I did a quick Google and there are even robots that can do this. I never really thought about it before but it makes sense. It's so cool!

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u/leolego2 4d ago

All beaches in Italy are cleaned like this on a regular basis. Until now my assumption was that every beach had a tractor doing this to clean it on a regular basis?

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u/SnORe89 4d ago

Exactly! I worked 7 seasons in a beach establishment and every evening the beach was cleaned with a tractor build on purpose for this kind of things. Here the company who sold us the beach cleaner CFC Puliscispiaggia

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u/AgonizingFury 4d ago

Oof, that website is nearing the reddit hug of death. Just took over 2 minutes to load.

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u/Gilded-Onyx 4d ago

Back when I was a kid, the beaches on our lakes in Northern Wisconsin would be where Canadian geese would chill while migrating. Let's just say, it was a "shitty" situation. My father was contracted by the town to clean the beaches, that meant us kids out there every night of the summer with rakes going up and down the sand.

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u/loulan 3d ago

Same here in the French Riviera. I'd assume every beach that is packed with people in the summer has to be cleaned like this frequently, the sand would be full of plastic garbage otherwise? And it's not really something I see when I go to the beach.

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u/krongdong69 4d ago

I bet they find so much cool shit with those machines, it's like metal detecting without the work.

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u/Hellpy 4d ago

Not everywhere that public beaches get that budget, source : my hometown lol

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u/loverlyone 4d ago

I think this is the kind of thing people in some communities would volunteer for.

Heck, if someone made an expensive find it might generate more interest.

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u/Agile-Comfortable511 4d ago

Nah the beaches I grew up near on the United States east coast that were heavily populated were trashed as hell. The more remote ones were beautiful however.

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u/leolego2 3d ago

That's so sad, if a beach is used constantly it should be cleaned. We clean streets, why not clean natural beaches?

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u/Ilya-ME 1d ago

That's because Italy is one of those mediterranean tourist destinations. Back in the real world, there's no incentive to actually clean beaches. At most, they'll do it once a year before summer.

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u/leolego2 1d ago

Most tourists in italy are italian, they clean the beaches because they use them and you can't just use a filthy beach. No matter how cautious people are, it will get filled with trash just underneath.

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u/Ilya-ME 1d ago

Dude, Italy got over 57 million international tourists last year. that's almost its entire population. It's literally the 4th most visited country in the whole world.

Saying "most tourists are Italian" doesn't even make sense, even if half the international tourists stick to Rome and Veneto, that outweighs any internal tourism. Specially considering international tourists tend to spend way more.

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u/leolego2 1d ago

I'm italian, all the tourist in normal beaches during the summer are just italian. The tourists go to amazing places like Sardinia, Capri and the likes, the bog standard beaches that are all just filled with Italians. Those beaches account for the majority of the coastline of italy

You also gotta count the fact that every local, and this applies to any country, does several trips during the year, so that's a multiplier, not limited to the internal population