Trash in water

Good on ya, Nick. You don't even want to see what AI has turned into this summer....

 

I agree with you. The human race....destroying the planet. Over the weekend, we collected & packed out two boxes of debris left behind at AI by what has to be absolute morons. Start small, and they shall follow: mucho props to you, sir.

 

We have a beach here that is the same. Hate seeing a pile of trash a few feet away from a trash can. Every little bit helps! Keep it up.

 

This was just discussed here today, this exact same thing: it's a positive mentality, a sound & far-reaching perspective, and for some reason the majority of folks don't cotton to it. Greed? What is it?

 

Good haul Nick. I will expound upon this further when I return to the office environment.

 

It's pretty terrible that every time your on the beach there's some sort of trash to pick up 99% of the time, mainly in the summer. It certainly says something about the tourons over the folks that actually enjoy our beaches year round. I always wind up with my boardshort pockets full of chip bags or some stupid f's garbage that I have to carry to the can for them. It's always fun to call people out on it when you see them get up and start to leave their pile behind though, makes for some red faces and usually raises a bit of awareness on the beach that its not tolerated by everyone. Hopefully at least one more person follows suit, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

I don't think it's a case of people not knowing any better. That might have been an excuse in the 60s. It's a bunch of things: They just don't care. Don't want to be "bothered". Feel they can do whatever they want. No sense of responsibility. Used to having others clean up after them. It's all about me, me me.
Also, if people are drinking and inebriated, they are very sloppy. I also think there are some with a twisted mentality who actually take a perverse pride in the messes they make.
The littering problem is pervasive and not limited to just the beaches. I've done quite a bit of running and participated in roadside clean-ups (not in orange coveralls), and I see trash and garbage along the roads that people have tossed out of their moving vehicles. I've seem them do it; I've even been hit with it a few times while out running.

 

That's utterly nuts, man. People that would do that should be used as live bait for Whitey, bu with no hook to harm Whitey.

 

I paddled through a condom last summer at Rockaway. The riff raff that occupy the beaches this time of year don't seem to care much about the ocean. Fortunately, there are people who value nature, like surfers, who unfortunately, end up doing a lot of the cleanup.

 

^^ this. As you say, start somewhere.

 

People litter because they are allowed to. Public beaches are to blame. Private beaches don't have to allow riff raff in so they stay cleaner. it's the ole "tragedy of the commons" problem from Econ 102. we surfers, fishermen, and other naturalists should be able to own our own beaches. but that would go against what most of us have been indoctrinated to believe. public access has got to go.

 

The trash is definitely coming from tourist beach-goers.

I've yet to see a piece of trash in the water or on the beach at my home break. There was a dead sea lion who stank up the place for a while before somebody buried the body and I do step on tar balls pretty regularly, though.

 

I completely disagree with the idea of private beaches. Privatization of natural resources in general I think is a very scary idea. Wrightsville beach is in a sense privatized by the parking meters and gestapo police that patrol there, and it's a sad thing. Montauk is very similar. We need less taxes and laws, people just need to clean up their behavior.

 

Forgive my ignorance, but where/what is AI?