Today, I went to visit a monitoring site with a colleague from the American Littoral Society. We are looking for marsh vegetation recovery after removing an old dock that had washed up during Hurricane Sandy. While we were there, I couldn’t help but notice the large amount of plastic debris littering the marsh. Here is a short video to give you an idea of the scope of this issue, and the stark reminder that the things that we throw away don’t “go away”. Rather, they end up in unexpected places. Like here.
