Trash in water

I wanted to have a big ranting addition to this thread because it's a topic that I feel strongly about, but not really feeling too articulate today... the bottom line is that at least half the current human population are insolent swine who don't even appreciate being alive on this planet.

#WhatEverHappenedToSuperAIDS???

 

Beach clean ups by nature are a symptomatic cure. The trash will come back. One good thing is to have cigarette butt receptacles stationed wherever you can get them placed. The problem is in packaging. Plastic wrappers, Mylar balloons, six pack holders. That and fishing line is the most egregious of the offenders, due to their hazards they present to wildlife through ingesting or entanglement. I always felt that a good, well organized and attended beach clean up was more about raising awareness, and getting a core group of like minded individuals together to make a long term impact on a given stretch of sand, or on a water shed if you are really ambitious. It is a great feeling of accomplishment, but the trash will come back. Even if no one goes to that beach, the trash will show up. After a big windstorm, or a heavy rain, the trash will come back. It's embedded in our society. Recycle, use cardboard containers, and reuse plastic bags. It won't change the world, but at least I try to be part of a solution based movement, rather than be totally ignorant and a major player in the pollution of our planet. Keep up the good work and keep putting out the positive energy bro!

 

Good work. I think that picking up beach trash models behavior the ignorant had not considered. The more people pick up trash, the more you stimulate awareness.

There was a 50 acre brushfire a few years back. We were evacuated and stood on the roadside watching the firefighters. A newspaper reporter casually commented to me, "wow, it never occurred to me how bad it could be to toss my cigarette butts out the window of my car."

This made me realize how ignorant people can be. Even college educated people.

Good on you for modeling trash picking up. Maybe some people changed from watching youl

 

A positive thread about doing something good? Not on SI!!! J/K, Good work Nick

 

After a surf, from the water to the car, I pick up all the trash I see in my path. Last time I had so much, I was forced to put my board down and come back for it.

 

Whenever we camp at the beach in the AM I gather up the rug rat army and we go 100yds in every direction cleaning up everyone else's crap. Barely makes a dent in the whole beach but better than nothing and hopefully instill in the kids a hatred of litterbugs...and that personal responsibility is a good thing.

Where humans go filth follows. Almost all the bridges on the lakes around here have trails you can walk down to get to the water. Lots of place for me to drop the SUP in and get a workout. But they are all downright disgusting. Nothing but trash everywhere. The fishermen don't want to take that 12 pack of empties back with them in the truck so they just toss it on the ground. See all kinds of other crap too, dirty diapers, etc..I've talked to the Army Corp, Wildlife Officers, Park Rangers, and Sheriffs. They are sympathetic but just don't have hardly anyone to catch them. Only a couple wildlife guys to cover the entire county, which includes 3 large lakes, numerous small ones, game lands, etc..Tickets for no fishing license are easy since they can see the pole in their hands. If they don't see them litter or can tell its their crap, there's not much they can do.

One of my fav spots to put in...went a couple weeks ago and someone just pulled up and dumped an ~ 48" old CRT off. Broken glass everywhere and the thing sitting in the middle of where you pull off on the side of the road. Yep, just pull up and toss it off the side of the truck...***holes.

 

Sorry.
I am kind of a trash bag. I'm trying to clean up my act though.
Meanwhile, I'll avoid your break until I get a hold of my trashy filth.

 

Assateague Island. For some reason which I can't explain, humans dump more trash on the wild side (NPS) than on the stateside. You'd think it would be the other way around: more respect for the pristine environment that you're fortunate to be driving your 4wd up & down on.

And those sticks of firewood, half-burnt, charred up & buried in the sand. Along with those sharp mussel shells buried in the sand from some yahoo's cookout. I'm on the verge of taking a big rake with me next time out there, just to sift out all the flesh-ripping debris left in the sand.

 

...and then you spun & leveled a vicious kick into that moron's crotch, leaving him writhing on the ground in pain, as you snarled 'you littering useless talking head!'

Uh, sorry Betty....I know you wouldn't do that.....just fantasizing about a dream ending for a media pig...

 

props for you pickin up trash. I always leave the beach with garbage.

ive come to realize that no matter how much you put out there as far as doing something right and trying to educate people it doesn't matter. if you organize a cleanup you will only attract like minds. everyone and I mean everyone knows that littering aint cool. but people, a lot of people are just too lazy and narcissistic to really care.

I see tourists litter, I see pedestrians litter, I see motorists litter, I see surfers litter, I especially see a lot of fishermen litter.

it doesn't even matter what you say. ive approached people after seeing them litter and spoke to them nicely that it isn't cool. some shrug their shoulders and walk away, some look at you like you got a d*ck on your forehead, and some people have told me to mind my own biz or f*** off.

its a big problem with the world today. people just don't give a F*** about anything accept themselves.

the best place is to target the youth for a clean up. have it organized with work shops n all. make it fun for them. maybe just maybe when they get older they will still care instead of too caught up and overwhelmed with their self created problems.

 

Couldn't agree more, exactly my thoughts regarding the world.

 

Following your line of reasoning, then, make it mandatory for citizens to pick up trash. If they gotta pick it up.....stands to reason that they won't lay it down. Forced accountability.

Some countries call it 2 to 4 yrs of compulsory military service. Yes indeed.

 

I bet American. We're unclean. Thats all there is to it. A chance to put a hole or dimple in this issue regionally, no issue how little.

 

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What's wrong with you? I think you ate too many transport chips.

 

This is why a two year shot on site policy should apply to litterers and other Earth abusers. Yeah I said it, shot on site.

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If you're paddling through condoms in Rockaway, the problem might not be the "riff raff" on the beach, it might be the result of combined sewer overflow after a rainstorm. All those tampon applicators after a couple of days of onshore wind don't come from women on beach. This is an issue that could be easily solved with a little bit more infrastructure spending.

 

yeah, I've come to the conclusion that most the world's population are packs of classless, inconsiderate morons. They'll do any stupid little act of "rebellion" to show off in front of their piers: toss a butt of the floor, toss a cup in the bushes, spray their retarded, unartistic tag on a rock, etc. Anything public is a target for destruction.

I just came back from a popular, yet secluded public beach and am extremely disappointed by the amount of graffiti, cigarette butts and plastic cups left there just in the past 6 months...it's getting exponentially worse. Then, I looked out over a cliff and there was a bunch of various sizes and colors of plastic garbage caught up in the kelp. 50 to a hundred people go there every day...but I've never seen anyone helping to pick up any of the trash.

Granted, no one is going to swim out in the freezing pacific and get it out of the kelp, but what ever happened to "pack out more than you pack in"?...most of these people don't even bother to pack out their own trash, much less anyone else's. I saw a dude there throw a lit butt on the ground and not even stomp it out...in this drought! Idiotic!!!...but, hey, it looked real cool in front of the ditsy girls he was with. I watched a guy throw some other little trash on the parking lot...his car was only 10 feet away!

When I have time, I go out with a couple of old grocery bags and clean the beach in front of where I surf...but I've only ever seen one other person doing that. It takes me about 5 bags to get what I can see. I try to get some of the stuff that's in the river when I'm paddling back from my sesh...but a lot of it I can't get to because it's caught up in the weeds or half sunk and out of view.

You have to make an effort to be part of the solution, or you may unwittingly be part of the problem.