Santa Monica South: The Horror...

Dateline: Santa Monica South. Auditing the lack of hand picking of trash along the shoreline by the City of Santa Monica.  The failure to do so has left us with little choice but to clean it up ourselves...

The photos:

Thursday, August 18, 2016:  The trash I collected along the water line to the berm along Santa Monica South.  I dumped the trash out on the sand so I could take this photo. Thereafter, I placed the glass and plastic waste in one of the blue Recycle bins and placed the rest of the trash in a nearby garbage bin...

Monday morning, August 22, 2016:  The trash I collected along the water line to the berm along Santa Monica South. I dumped the trash out on the sand so I could take this photo. Thereafter, I placed the glass and plastic waste in the blue Recycle bin and placed the rest of the trash in a nearby garbage bin...

 

Tuesday, August 23, 2016:  The trash I collected along the water line to the berm along Santa Monica South. I dumped the trash out on the sand so I could take this photo. Thereafter, I placed the glass and plastic waste in one of the blue Recycle bins and placed the rest of the trash in the above shown garbage bin...

Saturday, August 27, 2016:  I found this discarded white bucket along the shoreline out front of SMS Tower #18 at the end of Pico Blvd. on Saturday morning, Aug. 27th and used it to pick up trash along the water line from Tower 18 - 16.  There wasn't as much as usual and I mentioned it to the lifeguards at both Tower #16 and Tower #20 and they said that there were three young girls, approx. age of 12, that we picking up trash along the beach, albeit as volunteers that morning.

Monday morning, August 29, 2016:  The trash I collected along the water line to the berm along Santa Monica South. I dumped the trash out on the sand so I could take this photo. Thereafter, I placed the glass and plastic waste in the blue Recycle bin and placed the rest of the trash in a nearby garbage bin...

Wednesday morning, August 31, 2016:  The trash I collected along the water line to the berm along Santa Monica South. I dumped the trash out on the sand so I could take this photo. Thereafter, I placed the glass and plastic waste in the blue Recycle bin and placed the rest of the trash in a nearby garbage bin...

The amount of trash left uncollected and not hand picked by the City of Santa Monica is absolutely staggering! 

The City of Santa Monica claims that their staff does hand pick this part of the beach from the water line to the berm...

x-ref:  http://www.smmirror.com/articles/News/Trash-Talk/45915

The results of our own efforts, however, illustrates that this is simply not the case and that the City neither regularly, and certainly not daily, bothers to hand pick up the trash in this part of the beach.

It is hoped that the City will start to actually hand pick up the trash along the shoreline at the beach that they say they are doing and which they are clearly not doing.

Respectfully submitted,

 Will Maguire

Editor,
"County Recurrent"News
http://CountyRecurrent.blogspot.com

(All photos by & Copyright Will Maguire 2016.)

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