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On Friday, over 500 students and other residents of Quy Nhon walked along the beach to collect trash, including plastic bags, twigs and fishing net remnants that had washed up after storm Matmo made landfall on Wednesday. A four-km section of the beach was trashed. |
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Wave after wave delivers trash to the beach. |
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Students and locals use rakes and hoes to collect the trash. "Quy Nhon is a town for tourism, so in order to maintain the city's aesthetics, the provincial union has called for students to collect the trash," said Nguyen Tuan Anh, a local teacher in Quy Nhon, the capital of Binh Dinh Province. |
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Students work together to pull a net out of the sand. |
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Trash was collected in baskets and deposited on the street to be taken away by trucks. |
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A bunch of nets waiting to be collected by waste treatment companies. Storm Matmo made landfall in the provinces of Binh Dinh and Phu Yen Wednesday night, carrying maximum wind speeds of 90 km per hour, but weakened into a tropical depression shortly after. The storm has felled thousands of trees and damaged hundreds of houses, ships and dams in Quy Nhon, the Binh Dinh People's Committee said. |