Beach garbage: N.S. woman captures shoreline cleanups for social media – Halifax | 24CA News
A Nova Scotia girl is chronicling her journey of cleansing up rubbish and particles from the Bay of Fundy shoreline.
Karen Jenner, from Lakeville, N.S., says beach-cleaning is one thing she’s at all times performed along with her household earlier than it grew to become her ardour.
“We went to the beach a lot with our kids,” she mentioned. “To keep them busy while we were there… we would just tell them to find a rope and they could put anything on the rope that had a hole in it. That might be another piece of rope that had a loop in it, or a container that had a handle.
“They would be quite amused dragging this long rope around.”
The household would then carry the ropes residence and eliminate what wasn’t recyclable.
Several years in the past, Jenner started going to seashores herself to gather extra rubbish — beginning with particles from lobster traps.
“I quickly had 500 of them… and I found that I quite enjoyed doing that, so I started collecting other things.”
Jenner mentioned she was shocked with the gadgets she was discovering alongside shorelines, and thought others may be too. That’s when she started documenting her findings on social media.
Her Facebook web page now has greater than 5,000 followers, with every submit getting dozens of interactions.
This week, Jenner shared she single-handedly collected 3,143 plastic packing straps from the Bay of Fundy shoreline in simply two months — and 61,160 plastic straps since March 2018.
Fishing gear is what she finds essentially the most of, a few of which is Canadian and a few American, she mentioned.
“People are surprised, they’re amazed,” Jenner mentioned. “For other people to see the same thing… it’s quite striking.”
Jenner mentioned it’s rewarding to take away as a lot rubbish as she does. But figuring out there’s much more she will be able to’t get to might be discouraging.
She hopes her work conjures up others to assist clear up Nova Scotia’s shorelines. The work, she mentioned, is straightforward.
“Any time you’re at the beach if you see things that shouldn’t be there, and it’s usually plastic, pick it up,” she pleaded.
“Whatever you do, it doesn’t have to be big… anything helps.”
— With information from Global News Morning’s Eilish Bonang.
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