“Some things don’t go better with Coke” – \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n I hang out on the shores of San Francisco Bay. I love San Francisco Bay. But like the sandpiper improvising around a discarded surgical glove, my brain has to improvise around the deluge of trash that invariably marks any walk along the shoreline.<\/p>\n Smell the Glove<\/a> – \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n I’ve seen: four-foot, mangy teddy bears nested in cord grass at high tide; an endangered Clapper Rail<\/a> preening among plastic; helium balloons tangled in seaweed, 100 yards out in low tide; plovers foraging around cigarette butts; fishing line and plastic loops just waiting to entangle the next curious gull.<\/p>\n Here are some distressing facts from the Greenpeace document, Plastic Debris in the World’s Oceans<\/a>:<\/p>\n As broad and sobering as is this Greenpeace report<\/a>, on the topic of garbage, it’s just a primer in the world of trash. For an animated and accessible perspective on the impact of our “stuff,” check out Annie Leonard’s The Story of Stuff<\/a>. It’s a video you can view online which documents, literally, the story of our stuff as it’s produced, used and then discarded into the environment. It deals with the whole breadth of issues associated with our appetite for consumption.<\/p>\n So, in an effort to document the end result of our discards on our beautiful Bay, here’s the first segment of\u00a0Bay and Beach Flotsam<\/i>.<\/p>\n ** My mate and I pick up the more hazardous pieces of trash, but the amount is overwhelming and way beyond the work of four hands.<\/i><\/p>\n “Super Hero Flank Steak” – \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n “An Egret and His Value Meal” – \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Related:<\/b><\/p>\n [\/fusion_text][\/fusion_builder_column][\/fusion_builder_row][\/fusion_builder_container]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Bay](\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3303\/3647562891_2a82341ca8.jpg\")
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San Francisco Bay trash and pollution: I’ve seen: four-foot, mangy teddy bears nested in cord grass at high tide; an endangered Clapper Rail preening in a pile plastic bottles and corn chip bags; helium balloons tangled in seaweed, 100 yards out in the bog of low tide; plovers foraging around cigarette butts; fishing line and plastic loops just waiting to entangle the next curious gull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,81],"tags":[231],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildbeat","category-pollution-wildlife-ethics","tag-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}