lifeguard tower 26, Ocean Park –
Santa Monica CA
trash collected for 20 min.
1.1 pounds
1,292.6 pounds total
5 cigarette butts
Danielle who writes the IT STARTS WITH ME blog is going to do 365 beach cleanups too! I'm so thrilled. We compare how many cigarettes we pick up on our respective beaches in 20 min..
Last count for Danielle - 582 cigarettes in 20 min.
I got 5 on the same day here in Santa Monica.
Oct. 24th was my
birthday. I got an acupuncture treatment, talked to my best friend from college who
lives in Maine, and went out to dinner with my husband and friends. Between
acupuncture and dinner I went for a beach cleanup.
“I bet it sounds strange that I’m
going to do a beach cleanup on my birthday,” I said to Diane my acupuncturist
as I left her office.
“No,” she said, “It’s what you
really enjoy doing. Doesn’t sound strange at all.”
Picking up Band-Aids makes my day?
No, not that literally, but it recharges me to do something about an issue I
care about – clean oceans.
My promise – action feels so much
better than inaction. Feeling overwhelmed when you hear about the trash
accumulating in our oceans?
Could you cleanup your neighborhood even if you
live far from the sea?
Because as Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Center said at Santa Monica
College this week, “The ocean is downhill from everything and everything rolls
downhill.”
AND EVERY ACTION MATTERS
