Georgia’s Black Sea sandy beaches go rubbish-free this summer
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One of Georgia’s attractive coastal towns boasting black sandy beaches will be rubbish-free this summer.
Tourists visiting Ureki and Shekvetili beaches on the Black Sea coast will be able to spend their time in the sand and sun while enjoying a clean coastline thanks to the introduction of vehicles that will clean up the beach.
The machines are able to remove rubbish from depths of 20cm beneath the sand. Photo by Georgian National Tourism Administration.
The special vehicles will clean the beach area several times per week during summer.
This morning the Georgian National Tourism Administration announced three large beach machines had started to clean up 14km of coastline between 14 km Ureki and Shekhvetili beaches to make the area rubbish-free.
The specially adapted vehicles will ensure the coastline is cleaned quickly and more thoroughly than by hand cleaners. The machines will also be able to remove rubbish from depths of 20cm beneath the sand.
The special vehicles will clean the beach area several times per week during summer.
Today several top officials announced large-scaled disinfection work targeting mosquitoes and other disease-bearing insects will be carried out in western Georgia to reduce the spread of contagious diseases generally spread by insects.
Modern machinery costing more than 300,000 GEL his helping to make Georgia’s Black Sea coastline rubbish-free.
The European Union (EU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are embarking on unique research project of organic pollutants and large-scale marine litter in the Black Sea region.
To ensure Georgia’s coastal areas are free from rubbish and other waste, special equipment has been installed in Natanebi River to keep its water clean before it joins the Black Sea.
A group of volunteers supported by state agencies and private enterprise descended on a section of western Georgia's Black Sea coast last weekend to successfully complete what has been called the "largest ever" cleanup effort of the coastline.