Cancun authorities introduced this week that they are going to work with an area non-public firm that ensures to promptly do away with the foul seaweed and rework it into biofertilizer.
Adiós al Sargazo (Goodbye, Sargassum), an formidable new initiative by environmental companies, was launched in response to what might be a record-breaking 12 months for sargassum.
Even earlier than the algae season formally begins, extraordinarily excessive ranges of sargassum are already being detected on the seashores of Cancun and Isla Mujeres.
As a part of the brand new plan, authorities officers in Cancun will work with a model new non-public firm reportedly able to processing as much as 600 tons of sargassum seaweed day by day. If all goes as deliberate, the high-tech sargassum processing firm, Dianco, might drastically scale back the quantity of seaweed on a number of Cancun seashores.
“We are witnessing a tremendous amount of sargassum, which is abnormal compared to previous years, and as a business, we have a lot of work to do. We have the capacity to process 600 tons of sargassum per day and convert it to biofertilizer,” stated in a press release Héctor Romeo Morales, the CEO of Dianco.
Sargassum can now be simply dumped dry or moist at a sequence of assortment factors in Cancun, that are then routinely emptied. Sargassum is then collected and processed at Dianco’s waste services, the place it’s made into biofertilizer.
Sargassum elimination is not any simple process; actually, Cancun depends on an unlimited community of cleaners – about 160 – in addition to numerous volunteers to take away tons of sargassum seaweed daily.
Popular seaside areas within the Mexican Caribbean are making ready to clear file quantities of sargassum this 12 months. Officials have sounded the alarm after new knowledge suggests Cancun will see much more of the stinging macroalgae than it did in 2022, opposite to hopeful estimates made earlier this 12 months.
Thus, the authorities in Cancun started cleansing lengthy earlier than the season and allotted extra money for personnel. To enhance the effectiveness of sargassum elimination, Playa del Carmen, a significant trip vacation spot about 80 kilometers south of Cancun, has positioned enormous containers on its widespread seashores.
To forestall Sargassum from reaching close by seashores, new limitations are additionally being erected in a lot of Mexican Caribbean areas. However, environmental consultants have argued that these measures are solely a “band-aid” resolution and have known as for extra drastic measures to successfully eradicate the seaweed.