Lagos volunteers clear up plastic from city’s largest beach
02 April 2021 |
4:06 pm
It is the largest and most beautiful beach in Lagos, but also the dirtiest: at Lighthouse, plastic washed up by the sea piles up on the sand. Faced with what looks like an ecological disaster, a group of Lagossians have come together to clean the beach.
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