No Easy Fix for Plastic Debris in Oceans
A recent study shows that surface clean-up technologies won’t get the job done. It may take individual effort to clean up our increasingly garbage-laden oceans. Ultimately, changing human behavior is at the core of the solution.
Storms Plus High Tides Equals Large Amounts of Trash at the Beach
When we experience storms and unusually high tides, the sea returns and deposits a large amount of trash onto the beach. Most of it is broken pieces of plastics - much of it is caught up in the seaweed. The trash is strewn along the entire beach.
Balloons Don’t Belong at the Beach
Report Details Marine Life Plastic Ingestion and Entanglement
Marine animals often mistake plastic for food or inadvertently swallow it while feeding or swimming. Once swallowed, it can obstruct their digestion or lacerate their intestines, interfering with their ability to feed and leading to starvation and death.
What footprint?
Check out approximate years it takes for common litter items found on the beach to biodegrade.
Summer 2020 Beach Clean-up - Volunteer May-September
Volunteers needed to remove debris beach goers leave behind (i.e. toys, plastics/micro-plastics, styrofoam containers, cigarette butts, etc.). Goal is to remove these items before they can be washed into the ocean, thus protecting marine life and shorebirds.