This is tangentially canoe related, but I thought it might interest and inspire some folks.
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Happy National Zipper Day (pat. 1913)! 🤐
Inspiration & hope about water related trash
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We can all do at least a bit of that.
Scuzzy floating plastic water bottles annoy me to no end, and I’ll pick them up and add them to my trash. Who buys water in plastic bottles? Oh, ok, the same people who freaking toss them in the river.
There is a peninsula on Hawk Cover at the confluence with Back River & the Chesapeake, with a paddle accessible sandy beach. Lovely spot with a good view, but perfectly exposed to bay winds and tides. 10 feet back of the sandy beach berm in the Phragmites is a hundred yard long by twenty foot wide collection of (mostly) plastic water bottles. Thousands, maybe tens of thousands.
At least water bottle are lightweight (I wasn’t picking up 10,000 of them, although we did retrieve a nice 14’ aluminum spar that made a great pole). Freaking tires are a bigger (heavier) problem. There is a couple dollar fee to dispose of old tires in Maryland. Oh heck no, just pull over on the bridge for a minute and I’ll heave them over the side.
Years ago my local trout stream homeriver experienced a midnight tire dump. As in dump truck load over the bridge. They are still turning up, despite organized cleanup efforts.
On tidal bay waters lost crab pots are a serial killer problem.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-ghost-gear-20110718-story.html
https://komonews.com/news/local/thousands-of-derelict-crab-pots-litter-bottom-of-puget-sound
Sunk to the bottom and encrusted with barnacles those Ghost Pots keep killing, and they are self baiting as stuff funnels in and can’t get out. Crabs, fish, near to my heart Terrapins.
Scuzzy floating plastic water bottles annoy me to no end, and I’ll pick them up and add them to my trash. Who buys water in plastic bottles? Oh, ok, the same people who freaking toss them in the river.
There is a peninsula on Hawk Cover at the confluence with Back River & the Chesapeake, with a paddle accessible sandy beach. Lovely spot with a good view, but perfectly exposed to bay winds and tides. 10 feet back of the sandy beach berm in the Phragmites is a hundred yard long by twenty foot wide collection of (mostly) plastic water bottles. Thousands, maybe tens of thousands.
At least water bottle are lightweight (I wasn’t picking up 10,000 of them, although we did retrieve a nice 14’ aluminum spar that made a great pole). Freaking tires are a bigger (heavier) problem. There is a couple dollar fee to dispose of old tires in Maryland. Oh heck no, just pull over on the bridge for a minute and I’ll heave them over the side.
Years ago my local trout stream homeriver experienced a midnight tire dump. As in dump truck load over the bridge. They are still turning up, despite organized cleanup efforts.
On tidal bay waters lost crab pots are a serial killer problem.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-ghost-gear-20110718-story.html
https://komonews.com/news/local/thousands-of-derelict-crab-pots-litter-bottom-of-puget-sound
Sunk to the bottom and encrusted with barnacles those Ghost Pots keep killing, and they are self baiting as stuff funnels in and can’t get out. Crabs, fish, near to my heart Terrapins.
