TravelTalkOnline Forums Travel and Vacation Forums St. Maarten - St. Martin Collective to address the Sargassum problem

WOW! How do you remove it from a lagoon like Oyster Pond? Do you have to let it decay?

No you can remove it either on land or with nets.

Then where do you put it?

Two obvious ways - either the dump (yes, a problem on its own merit) or doing something useful with it. This is worked on throughout the Caribbean, with st lucia in the lead. Problem however is unstable supply.

"Like other Caribbean countries impacted by sargassum influxes, Saint Lucia has been resourceful and been using sargassum as an organic fertiliser, in conjunction with Algas Organics and the Saint Lucia Fisherfolk Cooperative Society Ltd which has led to the establishment of the first Sargassum Seaweed Processing Facility in the Caribbean. This initiative has provided livelihoods for community members and alternative livelihoods for fisherfolks." st Lucia Sargassum Hub

When we were in Roatan, Honderas, there was lots of Sargassum which they would use as fertilizer or dig big holes in the sand and bury it.

Someone invented a process to make bricks and people are making homes with it. There are videos on YouTube.

https://fortomorrow.org/explore-solutions/sargablock

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ms8ux

Wonder how they smell when the bricks get wet in the rain.