Apparently not an issue for the city fisherslobs who come out for the weekend and leave their plastic and tangled fishing line on the beach, 30 meters from a trash receptacle. In the summer, a couple of people would come along at 8 AM and pick up everything. This time of the year it will simply blow around, wash along the shore, perhaps snare and kill a bird or fish.
Small-minded, selfish, ignorant people.
My thoughts jump to the geniuses of GE – who bring ‘good things to life’ – and the small-minded, selfish, ignorant design and management of the Fukushima nuclear plant – and the dozens of reactors in the United States sharing the same faulty and design (hence the blackout on the subject by GE-owned ‘mass media’).
If (when) the storage tank at unit #4 fails, there will be no one coming around at 8 AM to clean up the mess. It will simply blow around, wash along the shore, and quite possibly end civilization as we know it.
But the bringing good things to life ads sounded good, some people made a lot of money, and no doubt the fisherman took a couple of nice fish home to fry.
What else matters?
Beautiful stretch of beach! It is tragic that some people give no thought to picking up after themselves, to preserve the beauty and the wildlife. I really enjoy your blog!
Thanks Donna. I grew up with 'litterbug-awareness' in the USA, and try to cut a little slack for other cultures. In semi-rural México, my walks occasionally took me past 'bag farms' – fields strewn with discarded plastic bags – and I realized that for centuries every bit of packaging the locals used had been completely biodegradable. In the Dominican Republic, I was made aware that, despite the US-inspired 'do not litter' signs, there actually weren't many places to 'properly' discard of plastic packaging.Here people throw trash out of their cars (infrequent but not unusual) but someone paid by the government will clean it up, sooner or later (usually sooner). Out of season, though, ain't happening on the beach.