life guard tower 26 - Ocean Park, Santa Monica CAtrash collected for 20 min.
13.5 pounds
HOSTED BY THE PLASTIC POLLUTION COALITION AT UCLA
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The average weight of one Daily Ocean cleanup is 4.1 pounds of trash -- mostly plastic -- in 20 minutes. And lets face it, plastic wrappers, bottles and other disposable plastic items don't often weigh too, too much...
My friend Danielle is on a mission to get cigarette butts banned in North Carolina. She's on Day 4, and it is staggering how many she finds in 20 min. She weighs all the trash she collects so I can add her to the Community Collection of The Daily Ocean. Then she separates out and counts the butts. GO DANIELLE!! See her post on her fabulous blog, "IT STARTS WITH ME."
"20 minutes on August 18, 2010
Litter picked up by weight: 2 lbs 8 oz
Cigarette butts: 215
A very interesting article popped up on the YAHOO homepage today. It talked about the "garbage patch" in the Atlantic Ocean. The Sea Education Association published an article about their findings in the journal, SCIENCE:
Litter picked up by weight: 2 lbs 8 oz
Cigarette butts: 215
Total number of cigarette butts picked up off of Wrightsville Beach, NC in 4 days: 1,167"
A very interesting article popped up on the YAHOO homepage today. It talked about the "garbage patch" in the Atlantic Ocean. The Sea Education Association published an article about their findings in the journal, SCIENCE:"But ocean circulation studies that use satellite-tracked buoys have found that floating plastic can travel from Washington, D.C., or Miami, Fla., to the Atlantic garbage patch within just 40 days."
I try to keep my emotions about what I do here on The Daily Ocean to a minimum in my posts. I'd rather let what I find speak for itself. However, tonight it is hard to lift the heavy feeling that settled over me as I lugged the trash off the beach to my car so that I could weigh it. 13.5 pounds in 20 minutes is reverberating around in my head, making it hard to think about much else.
Maybe this was the day that a few new people saw what you were doing, and talked with their families about it later that evening, and it struck a nerve somewhere.
ReplyDeleteHarry -
ReplyDeleteThat would be cool. A big reason I do this. I may be saving a sea pull or two at my beach from a bottle cap, but the purpose of The Daily Ocean is to start a beach cleanup revolution, change our own daily habits of consumption and spread awareness. Your comment was a good reminder on a downer kind of day. Thanks for taking the time out to write it.
Sara
Sara...
ReplyDeleteMy heart sank when I read this.... I know that heavy feeling... the weight of the world... and it's in those moments that I feel so pessimistic. What gets me past it.... knowing that there are others out there doing the same thing.
Don't forget about our beach clean-up revolution!
Somehow... someway.... some thing has got to change... and every day I'm finding that there are more and more people that want to help make it happen!! :)
You're making a difference... in fact... you ARE the difference... and right now... that's all that matters.
great job !!!
ReplyDeletesurely it will spread awareness to people all over...that's why at Property Sunshine Coast we have many signings and warnings to people...