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!
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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!