[CINC] Plastic noodles on any other beaches?

[Paul Jr. Petrich]

Hi  CINC Volunteers,
 Yesterday was a busy day on the  beaches in Santa Barbara near our Chase palm Park  meeting hall. Lots of people from lots of organizations cleaning up the beach. Yours truly covered an area from our  meeting hall to the East Beach  Pavilion bath house. Besides finding the expected trash and debris, I was shocked to find a mile long  area of East Beach hiding minute plastic pellets in its sand all along the damp area just above the receding surf line. The pellets were the size of large granules of sand, sometimes clumped together, but most often mixed with the sand and bits of shells, always laying lightly  on top. Did anyone else notice these types of plastic pellets invading the shores you cleaned up? It was obviously  a very labor  intensive act to pick them up,  and they  would not count for much in the weighing in at the  end.  However,  as a frequent  swimmer and jogger at East Beach  for decades,  this realization that an "invasive" type of sand is showing up on a familiar beach is discomforting.        Sincerely, Paul Petrich

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