A equipment of cleaning Brazilian rappelled on Thursday in the shadow of one of the most famous sites in the world: The statue of Christ the Redeemer of Rio de Janeiro.
With harnesses and ropes tied to the balustrade surrounding the statue’s viewing platform, They worked to remove the trash accumulated on the mountainside before the eyes of tourists.
Hired by the municipal water management company wasteare also mountaineers graduates who usually clean the city’s famous hillsides, including those inhabited by working-class communities.
Plastic and others waste
Not only collect plastic bottles and others wastebut also flammable materials that increase the risk of forest fires.
- His job is “important because it preserves the natureprevents fires, eliminates trash “that accumulates here and reduces visual pollution, since we receive many tourists,” says Paulo Mauricio, an engineer who oversees the cleaning around the statue of Christ the Redeemer.
