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Went to the beach in Santa Cruz and the amount of plastic washed up was just sad
I was walking near the pier last weekend and saw a line of trash tangled in the seaweed. It was mostly plastic bottles and food wrappers, maybe 50 pieces in just a ten foot stretch. I ended up filling a grocery bag with junk in about five minutes. How does this much stuff even get into the water every single day?
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aaron_ellis807mo ago
Reminds me of a local creek cleanup where we pulled a shopping cart out of the mud. That stuff travels miles from some parking lot to end up there. It's all connected, which is the depressing part.
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gray_mason307mo ago
It starts on land before it ever reaches the beach. Litter gets washed into storm drains from streets and parking lots, and that system dumps it straight into the ocean. Single use packaging is the main culprit, blowing out of trash cans or just getting tossed. Even on a calm day, the currents and tides just keep pushing it all back to shore. It's a constant flow from how we package and throw things away on a huge scale. Seeing it pile up like that really shows the scale of the problem.
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clark.alex7mo ago
Exactly. It's just a design flaw in how we handle trash. The whole system is leaky.
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