Rubbish at Da Mei Sha Beach in Shenzhen
100 *tons* of trash per day at Da Mei Sha beach!
From May 2007 SZ Daily Newspaper:
Entrance fee proposed for Dameisha
A PROPOSAL to charge a fee to enter the crowded Dameisha beach has been revived on the Internet after media reports said tourists left nearly 100 tons of garbage daily on the beach during the first three days of the May Day holiday.
The proposal aims to reduce the number of visitors.
As early as August 2002, the Yantian District Government proposed to the city government to charge such a fee. As the debate has continued, the amount of garbage left on the beach has risen from a daily peak of 60 tons in 2003 to 100 tons this year.
“The beach can accommodate a maximum of 50,000 tourists each day, but nearly 300,000 came May 1. According to our plans, the beach should charge an entrance fee between May and July, but open free at other times. Otherwise all we can do is beef up management and send more cleaners,” said Luo Xionghui, director of the beach.
“Free meals are not always delicious,” said a netizen who called himself Canghailiunian
“I’ve been there several times. Each time, I found plastic bags and bottles in the sea.”
Fewer visited the beach Wednesday. Cao Hongna, an employee with a bakery in Bantian, Bao’an District, said she had chosen not to come during the holiday. “They should charge an entrance fee during holidays so that fewer people come.”
Sima Bing, an environment official and political adviser with Yantian, proposed early this year that the beach charge a fee during peak seasons.
“Between May and October, especially during the May Day and National Day holidays, 10 times more people come to the beach, causing traffic jams, garbage and deteriorating sea water quality. The pollution is damaging Dameisha year after year,” he said.
