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I guess that that movie on Earth Day had more of an effect on me than I realized; now when I walk the beaches I constantly notice the trash either left behind or washed up in the wrack lines. I've started to carry a bag with me to collect what I see.
It occurred to me this morning that if every visitor to our beaches removed just one bit of trash ( including cigarette butts), together we would make an enormous impact on the marine environment as well as our collective living space.
Who knows? maybe it will spread beyond the beach!
But we could start there.
So, next time you are at the beach, or on the marsh, or at the boat ramp....please remember to at least take your own trash away; and if you find trash, please pick it up and remove it.
I remember about 30 years ago or so when I was a teenager & just began driving, I was with a friend, and I threw a candy wrapper out of my car window. Well she ripped into me. Went off for about 5 minutes on how bad it was. Needless to say, it opened my eyes to litter bugs. I have never thrown a piece of trash out of the window since. Now that I'm a "mature" man (ha!! ) I try to teach my teenage kids the same lesson.
I've been traveling down to the Carolinas for last 22 years or so. It's sad to say that the roads over the last few years are starting to get filled with litter. I half jokingly tell my wife..."it's all the damn yankees moving down here, and littering the place" . Scary thing is...it might be true.
Well I am certain that our friends from up north are not the only ones who forget to clean up after themselves....this morning I picked up 6 plastic bottle caps from in front of a house where a UGA flag was flying!
My only point in submitting this post was to get folks to think ....we share our beaches with a lot of entities, human and otherwise, so please lets try to make it more enjoyable for EVERY ONE by simply picking up after ourselves( at least) and if you see that someone else has been careless, how 'bout taking that off the beach too?
What is that saying about leaving a place better than you found it...?
Here in Texas there are huge fines for littering and many commercials with the theme "Don't Mess with Texas" that have country stars and others in them.
In addition civic groups, fraternities, sororities, etc. volunteer to collect trash along a certain number of miles on highways. There are signs posted that identify these groups all along the highways. As a result, Texas roads - at least the ones I have traveled - are quite clean.
Perhaps my home state could adopt this?
Once I arrive at the beach, I definitely will bring a litter bag and do my part to keep the beaches pristine.
Salutations again!
I have been spending a LOT of time on the beach recently as a volunteer for the SCUTE organization. That is the folks who monitor sea turtle activity on our shores here in South Carolina, for those who don't know about the group.
I want to thank the beachgoers who've been courteous and cleaned up after themselves; some are more conscientious than others, but at least we're making progress!
Now...about the cigarette butts.....
PEOPLE! PEOPLE! PEOPLE!!!..... The beaches of South Carolina ( or any other coastal community, for that matter) are NOT an ash tray. Please, don't leave your cigar and cigarette butts on the beach. Aside from being incredibly unsightly, this type of trash is very dangerous to our marine life. And over time, contents of the filters can leach into the sand and pollute the beach itself. And those plastic tips from the small cigars...they need to go, too.
I remember about 30 years ago or so when I was a teenager & just began driving, I was with a friend, and I threw a candy wrapper out of my car window. Well she ripped into me. Went off for about 5 minutes on how bad it was. Needless to say, it opened my eyes to litter bugs. I have never thrown a piece of trash out of the window since. Now that I'm a "mature" man (ha!! ) I try to teach my teenage kids the same lesson.
I've been traveling down to the Carolinas for last 22 years or so. It's sad to say that the roads over the last few years are starting to get filled with litter. I half jokingly tell my wife..."it's all the damn yankees moving down here, and littering the place" . Scary thing is...it might be true.
I recently moved to the North Myrtle Beach area from Rhode Island so I guess that makes me a damn Yankee. RI beaches have a "carry in/carry out" policy and and small trash bags are given to every car at the parking lot entrances.
New Englanders don't have the litterbug market sewn up and I'm just wondering why you'd infer something like that in a post.
BTW, I walk the beach down here almost every day and do pick up and dispose of trash. Fortunately SC provides plenty of trash bins on their beaches!
I recently moved to the North Myrtle Beach area from Rhode Island so I guess that makes me a damn Yankee. RI beaches have a "carry in/carry out" policy and and small trash bags are given to every car at the parking lot entrances.
New Englanders don't have the litterbug market sewn up and I'm just wondering why you'd infer something like that in a post.
BTW, I walk the beach down here almost every day and do pick up and dispose of trash. Fortunately SC provides plenty of trash bins on their beaches!
Because it was said in jest to my wife...but it's definitely more noticeable now. But I was referring to the roads coming down here, NOT the beaches. The population here has boomed since we started coming down here. Is all the extra trash from "damn yankees"?? Of course not!! But I do think some of it has to be.
Oh, and I'm a damn yankee myself...since I just moved here from NY.
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...I half jokingly tell my wife..."it's all the damn yankees moving down here, and littering the place" . Scary thing is...it might be true.
If it were only that simple... I'd luv to blame all of our problems on the Nawthern invasion, but they are not the ones who elected Mz Nikki, and I doubt they have worsened our trash problem enough to notice. Born and raised in SC, it has been one of the trashiest states I've known for as long as I can remember. The Grand Strand is bad enough, but travel some of the back roads around small SC towns, particularly along creeks and rivers, and the trash will break your heart. I keep hoping to see some small improvement in our attitudes toward litter, but the kids in our neighborhood are as bad as any from my past. It's a lot like our attitudes toward pollution and environmental destruction. We keep thinking if we ignore the problem it will go away...
It's a shame...no matter what state we live in, country, deserted island, we will always have litter.
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