"...half a Barbie doll, a tube of denture cement, a jockstrap and fake breasts..."

[SoCalDem]

Yay.. let's all go to the beach :puke:


N.J. beach-cleaning group reports latest finds
By The Associated Press
April 15, 2010, 6:21AM


Dirty underpants, a mannequin wearing socks, an air conditioner and a still-working iPhone were among some of the stranger items of trash picked up from New Jersey's beaches last year. Clean Ocean Action is marking its 25th year of beach sweeps in the Garden State. This afternoon, the coastal environmental group will release its full report on all the disgusting, dangerous and just flat-out weird trash that made its way onto the state's beaches during the past quarter-century.

The group said plastics have always accounted for the largest percentage of cleaned-up garbage — about 77 percent. Many plastic items can kill marine life by choking them or tangling their intestines. "People think these single-use plastic items are disposable, but they're really not," said Tavia Danch, the group's pollution prevention coordinator. "That's one of the main points we hope to get across." Cigarette filters account for 13 percent of the trash.

Since the group's first beach sweep in 1985, nearly 4 million pieces of trash have been picked up and disposed of or recycled.

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But balloons, particularly Mylar-coated ones, are on the rise. People either let them go on purpose or they slip out accidentally, fly for miles and end up in rivers or the ocean, endangering marine life. Clear plastics in general are dangerous for turtles, which mistake them for jellyfish and eat them, often with fatal results. Other items picked up in recent years include toilet seats, a pregnancy test (result unclear), bags of pet waste, an 8-track tape, half a Barbie doll, a tube of denture cement, a jockstrap and fake breasts.

[Skittles]

1. I thought this would be about Speidi

:D

[Iggo]

13. Yep. Me, too.

[ima_sinnic]

2. this wasn't about Ann Coulter?

[Jamastiene]

3. What MacGyver needs to build an entire army and take over a small country for $400, Alex.

:P

[dipsydoodle]

4. With that list I thought

maybe you'd show us one you made earlier. :rofl:

[xchrom]

5. And I thought this was going to be about

A fabulous cruisey gay bar.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

[DefenseLawyer]

16. Here's some useless trivia for you.

That line was originally "Dallas" instead of "Vegas", but because of the Kennedy assassination they changed the reference by rerecording the line. If you watch Slim Pickens' lips in the scene you can catch it.

[Ikonoklast]

21. GMTA.

One of my favorite lines, from one of my favorite movies, spoken by one the best character actors of all time.

[ThoughtCriminal]

22. Must post video link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5qqfsQGYus

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. This is why I swore off going to RNC beach parties.

[peekaloo]

8. Oh, I thought this was an assessment of the cast of 'Jersey Shore'

NOT the actual shore.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Is Michael Steele involved in another controversy?

[Major Hogwash]

10. An 8-track tape? Holy crap, did they dig up a time capsule or what?

My gawd, what will they find next, an original song previously unrecorded by Michael Jackson?

LoL

[SoCalDem]

11. We still HAVE our 8-tracks AND the stereo to play them on

:rofl:

I LIVE in a time-capsule:)

[pipi_k]

12. The drive-in movie theaters...

Years ago we would go to visit one of my dad's cousins who had kids the same age as my sisters and myself.

Cousin George worked part time cleaning up the concession stands and grounds of a drive-in movie place and would take us kids to help him, which really was a big treat for us, as we'd get to have free popcorn and soda in return for our help.

Anyway, there were always some VERY interesting items left behind at these places after Friday/Saturday "date nights"...some of the items being quite exotic (and mysterious) to a bunch of rather naive pre-teens during the early 1960s.


:7

[hunter]

15. Oh my...

:yoiks:

[lonestarnot]

14. What about the 1000 square miles of shit in the middle that is collecting?

[KittyWampus]

18. I watched a video about the Gyre... it was horrifying and yet also kind of compelling.

That much plastic gloop, floating in the middle of the ocean.

[KittyWampus]

17. Candy wrappers, tampon applicators... the only nice thing I find is beach glass

[pipi_k]

19. I know...whatever happened to the good old days...

When a person could go out on the beach with a metal detector and find money and jewelry?

[SoCalDem]

23. and beautiful shells

those days are gone...:(..people are trashy:(

[Stevenmarc]

20. Trash on a Jersey beach, I guess they found Snooki