Trashpatrol

Beer for breakfast

2011-12-27T21:11:00.001-08:00

Good 'ol Rolling Rock!

Barking to complain

2011-12-11T18:19:00.001-08:00

Olive is barking to complain about the small trash haul today.

Plastique

2011-12-07T08:56:00.000-08:00

Usual plastic. I usually leave wood on the beach but this door was so ugly I had to bring it home.

Plastic mostly

2011-12-06T09:00:00.000-08:00

A pathetic and commonplace collection--most plastic bags and a piece of fake lath fencing.

How many bumpers do you need?

2011-12-05T09:27:00.000-08:00

This is the third one I've pulled off the beach. Maybe it's for the trailer. Sickening amount of trash today after big rains.

Need a retread?

2011-12-05T09:01:00.001-08:00

I think this is more than even Les Schwab can deal with.

Need a retread?

2011-11-30T22:11:00.000-08:00

One tin can and a retread. When these are on the highway I think the truckers call them "Gators".

Couple new ones

2011-11-15T09:19:00.000-08:00

The junk car barges head south from here and pass the beach sometimes stuff falls off.

And eclectic mix here including a shotgun shell

Cat out of the bag?

2011-11-06T19:12:00.000-08:00

Whatever was in the bag, it's gone now.

The wheel

2011-11-05T19:16:00.000-07:00

Wondered about this wheel. Was it a hub cap?

An Egg for breakfast

2011-10-29T14:28:00.000-07:00

Not so sunny side up. We had to get the wheelbarrow to fetch it home.

Recycling center?

2011-10-28T12:07:00.000-07:00

The plastic bottle suggests somebody got confused and thought Puget Sound was the recycling center. More hated styrofoam today.

Gridiron Classic

2011-10-27T13:01:00.001-07:00

Left over from the Harvard-Yale game.

Get hosed

2011-10-26T10:57:00.000-07:00

Somebody tried to fix their vacuum cleaner hose with duct tape, got frustrated and pitched it into sound.

Paging Michael Moore

2011-10-25T11:42:00.000-07:00

I think this is his rubber exam glove from "Sicko". I wonder what it's doing on Luana Beach?

Tennis anyone?

2011-10-23T14:24:00.000-07:00

Olive found the tennis ball, of course. The round object is called a "mussel disk". I assume for mussel farming.

A slow news day

2011-10-21T11:03:00.000-07:00

This is from today and yesterday. "Coverall store" note must have fallen off a ship and washed ashore. Tacoma is 10 or 11th busiest port in the nation and it's just down the road--so to speak.

Clear with early sun

2011-10-19T08:23:00.000-07:00

Olive found the chicken tray but she has a one track mind about these things. Bud Light, H2O bottle and a chunk of loathsome Styrofoam. "Used for expanded rigid polystyrene plastic." Styrofoam is made up of tiny pellets mushed together. In the surf, these break up and scatter on the beach. Birds eat them thinking they're food and they stay in the bird's belly forever.

Getting Started

2011-10-18T18:13:00.000-07:00

Olive and I walk and swim on Luana Beach every day. This is me and this is Olive:

Every day the beach changes from tides, storms and wind. What doesn't change is the trash. Every day, Olive and I pick up trash on Luana beach. This is a blog about what we find.