Municipalities have resorted to imploring volunteers to help with the cleanup. Videos of the rudimentary efforts — volunteers simply rolling up oil slicks and plopping them into trash bags — are going viral. “Ahhh, okay.”On Monday, Vice President Hamilton Mourão said the government had recovered 600 tons of oil — nearly 4,300 barrels. A molecular analysis by IBAMA, the country’s environmental agency, showed the oil had not been produced in Brazil. But the Brazil spill is different.

Source: Washington Post October 22, 2019 21:48 UTC