Anybody seen this video from the Dominican?

This is nothing new. These ocean trash piles have been around for years.

I actually passed this spot in Santo Domingo a couple months ago. It’s actually right where The Ozama river empties into the Caribbean Sea.

Just went to the Damajagua waterfalls near Puerto Plata a few weeks ago. Beautiful scenery but the bus ride to and from was the dirtiest part of this planet I have ever seen.

Trash and litter along the highway was by far the worst I have ever seen - made Mexico seem clean in comparison.

I know most of the population is poor by American standards, but the Dominican government should do something about the trash.

That's the better half of Hispaniola, too

Most of that trash comes from Haiti, however DR isn’t much better. Their roads are full of trash. They literally have no trash collection services or landfills. I mean, it’s a 3rd World Country. What do you expect?

They are so freakin poor, we actually saw a families of 5 riding on mopeds. Daddy in the front, 3 kids squished in the middle and mommy on the back.

Tell you one thing though, they were the nicest and happiest people. Much more happy than Americans considering their situation.

It was a very eye opening experience spending a week down there not just sipping Presidentes at the resort. We went off the resort and got to mingle with the locals quite a bit.

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had to laugh at this comment...

Was in Punta Cana in June. On the bus from the airport to the resort we were heading down a pretty narrow and curvy road and we pulled up on an accident with a moped. Guy from the moped was laying in the middle of the road and they were covering him up with palm tree leaves. Was pretty crazy to see that.