Beach Trash: Where Do You Come From?

If you’re not picking up after yourself at the beach, you’re contributing to turning the beach into a dump. This may sound far fetched, but have you ever walked the beach during the week after a holiday weekend? This summer, preferably after July 4th, drive down to “The Sticks” on Padre Island, just past Corpus Christi; it’s the furthest south you can go from Bob Hall Pier before intering the preserve. Take a walk down the beach and I guarantee you, you will be able to plainly see where RV’s sat over the weekend. In a perfect outline of where they each sat, will be a line of junk and trash and used fireworks, even broken beach chairs, kids toys, broken beer bottles, and other unmentionable items.

… Where Do You Go?

When you leave the beach, everything you choose not to take with you, remains right there where you leave it, for weeks and sometimes months. Sometimes what you leave at the beach never gets picked up by anyone. People walking along the beach get their feet cut on broken beer bottles; vehicles get flat tires. The worst part is knowing that the people who came down south to visit us were so incredibly unappreciative of the beautiful beaches we worked so hard to keep clean for their visit. They left all their trash for us to pick up or just deal with.

Visitors

If you’re visiting South Texas beaches this summer, please please please, take your trash with you.

Locals

If you’re a local who is tired of the beaches being trashed by visitors and other locals, join the Adopt-a-Beach program and help clean it up.

Our Beach Could End Up Like This One

Here are a few pictures from Russia, of a beach in St. Petersburg, to give you an idea of what eventually happens to unkempt beaches.

Do you want to vacation at this beach? … Me either.
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