Turns out hunting for plastic, once you start finding pieces, can be just as addicting as fossil/rock hunting or metal detecting. As part of my project regarding whether beaches on Florida's east coast contain more plastic pieces than its west coast, I headed out to beaches located in Fernandina and Marineland, both located on the east coast.
During a visual survey of Fernandina's beach I thought I found
a plastic pellet goldmine:
But, after collecting dozens of these pellets I came across
this plant and realized I got duped:
However, aside from the fake pellets, it turned out that
Fernandina beach was indeed a plastic pieces jackpot and I found a multitude of
small pieces the size of an ant to pieces the size of a quarter, plus several
torn up balloon pieces, bottle caps and other large pieces of indistinguishable
mangled plastic that had biogenous - material
originating from living organisms - substances growing on them.
Stay tuned for a blog on the "disappointing"
cleanliness of Marineland's beach.
Hahaha--so funny that you were duped by a plant! Darn those biogenous sediments!!
ReplyDeleteNice blog! The bottle cap thing is kind of scaring me though. What is that really?
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