Making a Statement - plastic pollution

Microplastics on lantana involucrata

01-05-20 Remnants of prersumably holiday decor disintegrates into microplastics . Easily mistaken for food, the microplastics are potentially lethal to birds and insects who feed on the lantana involucrata.

Plastic @ beach

07-21-19 Plastic in its many forms is a staple for human-beach enjoyment.

Plastic @ beach

07-21-19 Plastic finds its way to the beach in a myriad of ways.

Beach chairs

07-20-19 Beach chairs in the surf is a heavenly way to spend the day.

Poor beach behavior

09-02-19 Beach Behavior 101: remove beach chairs & other paraphernalia from the shoreline as the day's festivities end. These turned over chairs are from "the morning after" a day at the beach.

Plastic @ beach

07-20-19 Plastic beach toys were stored where the next large wave can pull them out into Gulf.

Bring your own paper straws

04-24-19

Plastic toy gun

07-21-19 A plastic toy gun lays abandoned on the shoreline.

Beach scene

09-01-19 Unfortunately, the image is a common beach scene: sandals, shells & a single-use plastic bottle.

Coffee cup on beach

09-01-19 ... and then there are those who bring reusable ceramic cups to the beach, instead of single-use plastic containers.

Potential plastic pollution

09-02-19 With an unintentional mishap, these beach snacks and beverages could easily segue into ocean-plastic pollution.

Beach plastic pollution

09-02-19 The deteriorated plastic bottle rested on the beach after obvious time within the Gulf.

Beach trash

09-06-19 A variety of trash was found during daily beach walks.

Crustaceans on polystyrene

09-06-19 While spending time in the Gulf, crustaceans grew on the polystyrene cup and began the breakdown of plastic pollution into microplastics.

Fishing debri on beach

10-19-19 As substantiated by The Ocean Clean-Up, 46% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch consists of plastic-fishing nets, known as ghost nets.

Plastic Pollution

10-19-19 A Cozumel beach is filled with "foreign plastic pollution" dropped by ocean currents; most likely, the pollution originated in South America.

Trash by the Flint River

03-17-18 Local residents use the shoreline of the Flint River headwaters as a dumping ground for their trash.

Highway trash

06-17-19 Debris from the nearby I-75 continually blows over to Hickory Grove Farm creating trash on the pristine, regenerative farm.

Plastic litter

07-12-20 Plastic packaging from single-use plastic water bottles littered the font year of a Buckhead mansion.

A "placed" bottle

07-12-20 Rather than carry it home to recycle, a walker deposited the empty bottle in a neighbor's landscape foliage.

Dasani water label

07-12-20 A Dasani single-use water bottle label separated from its bottle and littered the urban roadway.

Plastic litter

07-12-20 Plastic litter is common on the popular urban walkways.

Dasani water bottle

07-12-20 Tossed out from a car or dropped by a walker, the Dasani water bottle trashes the local thoroughfare as plastic pollution.

Disintegrating plastic water bottle

07-12-20 A single-use plastic water bottle was carelessly disposed of along an urban roadway.

Plastic film ties

07-12-20 Once their use is complete, the colorful plastic film ties often segue into plastic pollution.

Plastic film marker

07-12-20 Plastic film is a common material used as markers. Even while in use, the plastic film may disintegrate into microplastics into the soils, atmosphere, and waterways.

Careless litter

07-12-20 Careless practices leave behind litter that segues into plastic pollution and later into microplastic pollution.

Plastic trash

07-12-20 Litter is the equivalent of pollution.

Dog poop bags

07-12-20 Common practice is for dog owners to carry poop bags on their neighborhood walks. Yet filled bags are trash and contribute to urban plastic pollution when improperly disposed of in public common areas.

COVID-19 trash

06-24-20 With the COVID-19 pandemic come new variations of single-use plastic disposable items.

Cigarette butts

08-20-17 Beyond trash, cigarette butts look like food to birds and other wildlife. My morning collection was in honor of Atllanta feathered friends and aquatic life.

Trash pollution

05-06-19 Much of the general trash created within urban and rural areas eventually disintegrates into microplastic pollution.

Shoal Creek trash boom

11-09-19 The Shoal Creek Trash Boom prevents kayaks from traveling up the creek from Lady Bird Lake. A trash boom is a floating barrier designed to collect trash, including plastic pollution, from entering a waterway.