Cynthia UR The poster was successful.

Unfortunately, the presentation will be disconcerting for I’ve been aware of the global trash problem since I was a small child in Garden Grove CA during the sixties.  

Then when my daughter was in High school she asked if I had heard of the great Pacific garbage patch, and she told me what it was and how it was half the size of Texas.  

So here we are, another ten years later, and many wonder; 

when will we stop doing business as usual?

The conversations get to become tedious when compared to the endless, continuous bombardment of single use plastic convenience bags, cups, straws, and coffee stirrers.

Then there are the photos of congested rivers, animals whose guts are filled with human handiness that break my heart; and it all just seems that for many this is all so unrelated.

  

The graphs articulate a random survey on our own local beach, no different a beach then what lie along the entire Florida coast.

The filters on one pack of 20 cigarettes weigh 0.12 ounces (about 3.40g with no tobacco included and displaces a volume of 10 ml). 

My count of 272.15g is equal then to 80 packs of cigarettes in three days over 1913.05m₂, that’s 

(2288 sq.yds), roughly equal to about a third of a football field in three days.

Daily increases on the north site of cigarettes came to 29.2g per day average; or 8.5 packs a day worth of filters on an area of shoreline less a quarter acre in size. 

The plastic count (all types) for same site showed an increase of 49.04g per day, this included straws, coffee stirrers, and vinyls used in construction not meant to ever store food in or be left in sunlight; it’s all growing…. All adding up.  

This survey took place where it is picked up by Volusia County and by volunteers.

This litter crime goes unpunished and we continue to tolerate despite the cost to clean it up.

The day has come, what is provided to keep it cleaned up isn’t enough;

I wonder what we will do now.

It's not too difficult to surmise why so much plastic ends up in the ocean

(Parker N.G.S.).

Thanks to Dr Woodall for providing focus and guidance.