5 Gyres - Understanding Plastic Pollution Through Exploration, Education, and Action

El Capitan State Beach, situated directly on the coast (away from a bay protected area) is a rocks-not-sand-beach and is a prime collection zone for marine debris from the North Pacific. I cobbled along the rocky shore in less than an hour easily filled my cloth shopping bag with a Magic Bubbles bottle, a baby bottle, a bucket handle, several pens, the handle of a toy shovel, one intact shovel, part of a tire, a third of a Frisbee, two flip-flops (unmatched pair, boo), part of a milk crate, three lighters, half of a Styrofoam plate, plastic sheeting, a gas cap, two small plastic bottles, a clip for animal tagging, a spray cap, a plastic lever, some rubber strips, a pair of sunglasses, two broken combs, very many bottle caps, and, as always, a good amount of miscellaneous consumer and industrial plastic parts.