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Published: 2007-08-12 11:42:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 5539; Favourites: 81; Downloads: 41
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Beaches are being extremely polluted because of people litter. For example on an area of 500 square meters all of this junk was found:Buoys: large 46 small 67 pieces 66
Crates (bread, bottle) 14
Plastic bottles (drinks, toiletries) 71
Glass bottles (from 15 countries) 171
Jars 18
Broken plastic pieces 268
Bottle tops 74
Pieces of plastic pipe 29
Pieces of rope 44
Shoes 25
Fluorescent tubes 6
Light bulbs 6
Aerosol cans 7
Food/drink cans 7
Pop tops 2
Gasoline cans 4
Gloves (1 pair) 2
Canned meat (leaking but intact) 1
Cigarette lighters (not working) 8
Doll's heads (1 male, 1 female) 2
Copper sheeting from shipwrecks 8
Truck tire 1
Plastic ninepin 1
Glue syringe 6
Small gas cylinder 1
Construction worker's hat 1
Plastic coat hanger 1
Toy soldier 1
Half a toy airplane 1
Tea strainer 1
Football (punctured) 1
Car floormat 1
Asthma inhaler 1.
All this was just left there to rot away.
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Comments: 14
Are you certain you could not be persuaded to enter this in the save the beach contest? Its for a good cause!
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Love this so much - it could make a great entry in our Save The Beach contest [link] (in collaboration with *melemel
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Crazy isn't it?
Great shot tho; it turned out very nice
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O_O and what amazed me even more..u count all that..
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It's pathetic, isn't it? My brother was in the Navy & said that they run across huge mats of floating trash that the ocean currents have brought together. The mats just go on and on and on and it's primarily polystyrene cups and the like.
Here is a resource for any who may care. Might be a bit extreme for some people but if everyone even just reduced it would help.
And there is hope right here with products made from sugar cane, potatoes, bamboo (using plant cellulose) that mimic plastic but are biodegradable.
The trick is getting people to care so thank you for your picture and post.
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I know you're trying to proove a gd point but i just love the photograph
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Its a crying shame. 
But some of those are really weird.
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the pic has a nice composition, and the description gives the concept a real punch.
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Trouble is this stuff is not biodegradable ......and never rots away.
Great shot, thought provoking
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lol what the hell inhlaer does on the beach ?
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I see your point.
People shouldn't throw there litter everywhere they want to. I love the photograph.
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