My friend Sara, who inspired me to start these beach clean ups, is nearing the end of her 365 non-consecutive beach clean ups. She's been collecting, weighing and documenting beach trash on her blog The Daily Ocean for the past 361 non-consecutive days and on Saturday, December 8 she'll do her 365th. For her last 10 clean ups, she's giving away photos she's taken on during her clean ups. "Like" The Daily Ocean on Facebook and learn how to enter yourself into winning one of her beautiful photos.
Another thing that Sara is doing for her last 10 clean ups is offering some advice, suggestions and solutions to how WE can help the ocean....
10. Take it off the sand and take it out of your life.
9. Use reusable grocery bags
8. Get a group together and go clean the beach.
7. Buy less food in plastic packaging
6. Pick a place and make it yours. (.... mine is Wrightsville Beach)
5. Challenge yourself to be bolder with your talents and creativity for the ocean.
4. Feel overwhelmed with the pollution in the ocean? Let it fuel you to action!
Whatever it is that you can do... do it. Trust me when I say that it all matters. When at the beach to do my most recent clean up, the beach seemed so clean that I almost decided not to do a clean up. ...and just as I had that thought, I looked down and found a piece of sea glass. I reminded myself that every little bit matters and although this was one of my smallest cleanups, it still matters. Everything we do matters. :)
20 minutes on November 27, 2012 at Access 28
Cigarette butts: 37
Total amount of cigarette butts removed from Wrightsville Beach, NC in 170 days:
53,180
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