BEACH CLEAN UP!

If you live near a shore, chances are there is some volunteer group that you can get together with to clean up the beach.  Plastics are especially important to retrieve from the beaches, but all fast food containers, cold drink cans and bottles, everything you bring in,  should be picked up and taken to a recycling place or put into home bins for pick up. 

Group efforts give you a chance to meet other people who are ecology and animal welfare advocates. But if EVERYONE was mindful about taking all their trash home with them in the first place the beaches would have less refuse on them to clean up between group efforts. 

Remember that it takes forever for plastics to degrade and even small worn pieces can be swallowed and kill fish and other sea creatures and birds.