hurricane Maria - hence the 48 pieces of galvanized, 1 gutter bracket, and lumber
cloth baby shoe,
galvanized roofing fragments from hurricane maria
plastic single use cups/forks/spoons
plastic food wrappers
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This was a beach & skin dive / free dive clean up by a single person over 2 hours. This site was last cleaned May 22, and before that on April 22nd.
There is an area of beach front that is a repeat zone for littering specifically glass bottles, plastic bottles, food wrappers, cigarette butts & cigarette packaging. This is where we find the majority of glass bottles.
There is also a trash dump close to the beach on the south side of the bay which (in part due to lack of regular solid waste pick up) allows rubbish to escape, be blown or drained onto the beach resulting in trash entering the ocean and littering the beach.
Finally there is one business that refuses to clean the rubbish from underneath their verandah which is directly over the sandy beach, there is A TON of trash under there (specifically glass bottles and single use plastic cups) that is potentially hazardous to retrieve due to broken glass, galvanized from the storm and rusty rebar from their construction.
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