“While this always tends to happen when the wind is facing this direction, this just goes to show how polluted the sea is and how careful we should be to take care of it,” Borg Manche told Lovin Malta.

“There’s even construction waste – how did that end up in the sea?” he questioned.

Schembri also had something similar to say, highlighting that oftentimes such wind direction would bring in a lot of waste into the area. 

“This is normal for that area cause of the weekend’s wind direction, all the waste in the harbour would get pushed to one side,” he said, also adding that there’s a high probability that the Grand Harbour on the Valletta waterfront side would also be quite bad.

“That’s the nature of ports, they will highlight what’s in it. The wood is both from small boats that fell apart and some are from construction it seems,” he confirmed.

“It really shows how important it is to both dispose of trash in bins as well as picking the right bins so that when you throw something away it stays in and goes to show that anything outside during weekends like this will end up in the sea since we’re an island,” he said.

The Cleansing Department has been notified of the waste, and the matter should be taken care of over the following days.

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