Despite the amazing look of this shore the fact is still there... it's glass, it started from littered bottles in the ocean. You stare in awe and think WOW the ocean turned these jagged broken glass into foggy smooth crystal looking pieces. I've done it, walking the beaches back home collecting the smooth colorful gems. Treasure!
So that picture got me thinking of even worse ocean pollution, Majority of the pictures I found was of Spring Break. Thousands of disgusting college kids swarm to beaches around the world and leave utter disaster behind with no remorse. The only thing they apparently care about is how drunk they got, how much they got laid and probably spread so much STDs (kidding, not kidding). So much idiocy in one spot it infuriates me. OK I'm not knocking them for wanting to relax and have fun while on college break, But the proof is in the pictures, they have absolutely no regard for the beaches they destroy. Sadly these are the next generation of college educated youth helping to pollute our oceans with the litter they leave behind. My heart hurts when I look at these pictures.
Who cleans it up? sure as shit ain't them. Volunteer Beach clean up shouldn't have to come out and clean up after these asshats. Sadly it is them. The people that care about this planet, cares about the beaches and more importantly the innocent, defenseless wildlife creatures that are impacted by the litter. Every year 8 billion tons of litter end up in oceans and lakes and about 100,000 sea animals die every year. If that number doesn't alarm you and you don't feel something inside you stirring with disgust for ocean litter, or litter in general then something is fuckin wrong with you.The next couple pictures are disturbing, but very much full of impact at the point I'm trying to make here.
You know those 6 pack soda can plastic rings. So innocent but so deadly. I've seen pictures of birds caught in them, even a cat. I picked one of those pictures. This poor turtle. He grew into the ring, how fuckin terrible is that. This isn't a sea turtle but the ones that live in lakes and streams, showing that obviously litter is everywhere. Cutting off the plastic, you better not think that oh magically the turtle's shell is gonna pop itself back. No, it will forever be disfigured because of this. 
Just because you think that you are being responsible and actually placing your trash in the proper receptacles, there could be so much things that could happen to the trash from the time you throw it away to the time it gets to it's trash resting destination. To avoid any kind of mishaps I've been taught from small kid time to cut through every single hole in the plastic. I decided to demonstrate with my pics of the rings cut into small pieces. Imagine if everyone in the whoooooole world did this no more animals get stuck in these. At least I know I'm not a contributing factor to the horrible torture that these cause to wildlife.
And my final gripe...
Unfortunately this poor bird and many more are the victims of said celebrations. The balloons themselves are often found in the stomachs of animals, the strings caught around their necks, legs, etc. You'd probably say why are the animals eating them? like plastic bags, floating in the water they are often mistaken for sea jellies, which are the food source of many marine animals. Alright I'm done, if I was able to sway at lease one person to try their hardest to be aware of what they do with their trash, from recycling to not being a fuckin douchebag and toss their rubbish out of their car windows, to just picking up after them selves after gatherings at the local parks then it will make me so happy and although you don't think you make a difference, you do.
