Bryan Galvin of Delray Beach just returned home from a 12-hundred mile journey that covered every single beach along the Florida peninsula. It took him four long months to walk from the Panhandle to Port St. Lucie, because he picked up EVERY piece of plastic trash he saw along the way.
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“This is a chlorine bottle from the Dominican Republic. We can get out there every day and pick it up, we can tell people how bad this issue really is to them, but when we come back out the next day it’s still going be there. That’s why he’s now sorting through every piece, documenting each one, then uploading it to a database so one day you can map it all out and see for yourself how big of a problem it is.”1
Bryan thinks that the key is to educate people to teach them to think differently. He commented how it saddens him (and us) to observe the indifference many people show when litter is in their sight. He said:
“It’s far greater than just a straw ban; it’s something we need to look at. There’s plastic just around, people just standing around, just standing around.”1
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He emphasized how we all need to start thinking differently about trash and realize the impact it can have on many of our decisions, adding:
“You’d be actually better to refuse that one (plastic) bag or two at the store every time you go to the store, than to think that walking the beach every day for four months is ever going to make a dent.”1
We admire people like Bryan who take the initiative to go out and make a difference. Do you try to pick up trash everywhere you go? (Obviously it is not easy to pick it up when you see it while driving down the interstate.) I really try to, and, unfortunately, I see trash (plastic trash) pretty much EVERYWHERE I go. We all know litter, especially disposable plastic trash, is a huge problem. We may come closer to solving it if each and every one of us took the time to think about how much plastic we use on a daily basis. It just might blow your mind and cause to you to pause and think! XO ~ Erin
