Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Traveling Hillbilly Cleans Up the Beach

The Traveling Hillbilly is proud to work at a company that encourages all its employees to take the day off work and do volunteer work around the city.

Several of us decided to volunteer with the Surfrider Foundation and clean up the beach. We arrived at 10am, ready to go. I have to say it was an eye opening experience. I expected to see a lot of cigarette butts, which we did, but I can not believe how many thousands of tiny little pieces of Styrofoam are scattered all over the beach. Even with the large group we had cleaning up, I don’t think we put a dent in the massive amount of Styrofoam. It was everywhere. I will never use Styrofoam cups or coolers again. For those of you who smoke cigarettes, if you can’t bring yourself to actually stop smoking, can’t you take the extra 10 steps to toss the butts in the trash can? Is that really asking that much? I just can not believe how much random trash is one the beach. There were not a ton of huge items, like cans and bottles, but there were so many little things, like pieces of plastic, labels from bottles, torn pieces of plastic bags, just a whole array of odd things.

Where does it all come from?

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