Over the weekend I hit the Lagoon once more for a serious cleanup. Instead of showing up in flipflops and a tanktop with a single bag to use I came with an absolute arsenal against trash. Pocket knives, a roll of bags, watershoes to go hunting in the shallows for marine debris, oatmeal [...]
A hat tip to Emily at Oceana’s blog who posted in The Scanner about Project Kaisei. I regularly talk about the problems of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with students, my neighbors, the people in the Publix checkout lane, to kayakers and anglers on the shore of the Indian River Lagoon, and pretty much [...]
“Would you flick that into your kids’ bathwater?” I’m trying to brainstorm and come up with short slogans about cigarette butts, which dominate the marine debris scene for the Indian River Lagoon. Over the last week I’ve been out to scour the same edge of water – as I’ve been reporting on for [...]
Another twenty pounds pulled from the edge of the Lagoon today. Its from the same stretch I’ve been cleaning for over a month now. I feel like the maid, sweeping up behind everyone and muttering: “Didn’t I just clean this?!”
The monofilament is everywhere. I’m not sure if thats because I’m suddenly more [...]
Florida runs a monofilament recovery program where PVC tubes are setup near critical points along waterways – mainly docks and other fishing structures – to attempt to get anglers to properly dispose of fishing line. The very nature of the material, both invisible and incredibly strong, makes it incredibly deadly for marine wildlife when [...]
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