Reminder - Leave No Trace - Protect Our Beaches

[TreeFrog]

I've long thought that a "beach recycle" facility is a great idea. People could drop off their stuff, too, along with the stuff that TDC tags and removes.

Put it at the welcome center, or a the old Seabar, or do several on 283, 395, etc. Don't hide it at the back of the county annex.Stick out a colorful sign. Make the smaller stuff "free for a donation". Make the bigger stuff 1/2 of Walmart prices, to make it attractive. Hand out simple, punchy info cards explaining the warning flags, dune lake care, sea turtles, and regulations about leaving stuff on the beach overnight.

And while you're at it, leave a county recycle trailer at the same location.

 

[Kurt]

I bet the county doesn't want to get in to the resale business but maybe they could contract it out or donate.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Encouraging people to donate their cheap plastic beach crap by dropping it off at the Cheap Beach Crap Boxes when they are done using it for the week, would also be good.

 

[JOE who]

I wonder if "leave no trace" includes the NO TRESPASSING signs...? Just a thought...

 

[scooterbug44]

It does in my world!

And also includes cigarette butts! The world is NOT your ashtray! :angry:

 

[Matt J]

It does in my world!

And also includes cigarette butts! The world is NOT your ashtray! :angry:

Nope, it's an oyster. Whatever that means.

 

[TooFarTampa]

Consider making this a sticky Kurt.

 

[NoHall]

I will be left on the beach all weekend with my stack of books. Do your worst--collect me, recycle me, throw me in the landfill. I no longer care.

 

[jensieblue]

cigarette butts, plastic bags...

I hate the cigarette butts like acne on the beach and the plastic bags blowing over the sand. Every trip to the beach , since I'm unable to walk, I select a small patch of beach to clean of cigarette butts and pay my kids for all the plastic and other efluvia they collect. That way they have money for a snow cone after cleaning up our little part of the beach. I miss the old shoe cone vender in Grayton. Where is the closest snow cone now. My one year old likes to ride in my lap down the bike path on 30 A while older kids bike...Theey are learning a sense of obligation to the community...

 

[jensieblue]

I'm in my electric wheelchair while the child rides in my lap...Thought I should clarify....