Leave Only Footprints

Just a Drop in the Sea, Eigg Beach Originally uploaded by suewhite

but in case you get the chance and you happen to be in L.A. - no not Luton Airport - the other one

On Tuesday, July 22nd, the L.A. City Council will vote on a series of recommendations to reduce urban blight and marine debris.  If the measure passes, we’ll be seeing a lot fewer plastic bag trees lining the L.A. River and our beaches may even look like beaches instead of trash dumps after a rainstorm.
 
Thanks to the leadership of Councilman Ed Reyes and Council President Eric Garcetti, the motion calls for a ban on all expanded polystyrene (EPS or Styrofoam) food service products from City-owned facilities to be phased in over the next two years.

Tell your L.A. City Councilmember to vote for the bans. Better yet, I hope you can make it to the City Council meeting at 10:00 am on Tuesday. Help L.A. join Santa Monica, Malibu, West Hollywood and Manhattan Beach in stopping the scourge from EPS and plastic bags. As usual, it will be held at the Los Angeles City Hall John Ferraro Council Chambers, Room 340, on 200 North Spring St.  The bans are item #16 on the meeting agenda.

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Summer time and the living is easy … there is rock, fish and chips, knobbly knees and kiss me quick hats, fake bake and the ever optomistic sun tan lotion… the great British summer is upon us.

To celebrate that fact, this month has a sea side theme. I will be digging out my wind break, filling the thermos and planning some jolly good plastic free days out.

Why plastic free? click here to see lots of washed up plastic debris - I think that says it all.

I have given up….

icecream and lollies in plastic wrappers or tubs. Only cones or cardboard packaging

Fish & Chips in plastic trays - ask for them wrapped in paper

Fake bake self tan in plastic bottles - I make my own

Collected rubbish

Originally uploaded by Wanderer and Wonderer

A bag of rubbish collected by a bush walker sits on top of a rock in Berry Island Reserve….

This guy has some shocking photos of plastic rubbish in a nature reserve

“Departing from Los Angeles on June 2nd for Hawaii, Algalita staff set sail on “Junk,” a raft built on 15,000 plastic bottles. Their 2,100 mile journey will take them through the plastic-plagued Northern Pacific Gyre. Designed by Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Joel Paschal, the raft boasts an airplane fuselage, discarded fishing nets, a solar generator, and a wind turbine. This ambitious journey will bring further public attention to the plastic marine debris issue” - If you want to support them there is a sponsor form on their site

Photo and text taken from flickr

This rubbish washed up on a beach in South Pembrokeshire is just appalling. The beach itself is secret and out of the way in yet has been totally ruined by long-distance rubbish.

Originally uploaded by krupali

DONT USE PLASTIC!:@:@
this is Juhu beach.. the plastic from the drains is vomited out by the sea in the monsoon, leaving every inch of sand covered with plastic. Don’t use plastic , if you have to - dispose it appropriately.

Uploaded by krupali on 14 Jul 07, 10.14AM