More straws to break the camels back

Before I moved to Wilderness from Cape Town early this year, my daughter and I did a few beach cleans on Blouberg Beach, the beach closest to where we lived at the time.
Just the two of us, I wanted to start educating her on the evils of plastic and the stupidity of single use straws especially, from an early age.

What we found every time we went was shocking and disgusting, but it did make for a great education for her (and me)
The harbour has a lot to do with the trash that washes up on that beautiful beach, no doubt, but I can also tell you that the "humans doing" make an impact as well.

There is a KFC across the road, along with shops and cafés and many restaurants, which spew their filth onto the beach, via the medium which are uncaring, selfish and stupid "humans doing" not human beings (in my opinion) and these people have kids - do they not care about the future state of the planet their grand children will inherit from them?

I just can't fathom why someone would just throw their trash onto the beach or onto the road or anywhere that is not a waste bin???

I want to make an appeal, if you have read this, please try your best to reduce your plastic consumption by refusing single use straws, taking a reusable shopping bag to the store or, if you have to (and we all do) recycle your plastic to the best of your ability! It is really not that hard to do these days.

The impact that single use straws alone have on the aquatic bird species around the world is scary {for lack of a better (less profane) word} and if we all stopped using them, I believe we could really make a difference!

Keep it tidy folks :)

Some of these pictures I have posted in the past, but I have grown on steemit since then and I thought by trying again, I could now reach more people, and spread the word further...

My little beach warrior :)

Sculpting with straws

The plastic bucket was also found on the beach

Clean up #1 - all collected on the sand over a distance of roughly 250m each way

This is what we found on clean up # 3, before going into my recycling bin. The coke bottle was also found on the beach

Oh, and before I forget: We have done two organised, large group, beach cleans on Wilderness beach since moving here in January and between about 20 of us on each occasion, did not collect what myself and Drew did on Blouberg beach on our four missions.

That tells me that people in the cities are far less concerned about their immediate environment than folks in smaller places...