[Billfish715]

Andy, Nice job on the visual evidence of what happens when people discard plastics and other disposables into the street or near a body of water. The politically correct worry about climate change bringing about an end of the world. I think their efforts would be better spent by controlling or curtailing what is more of a threat to the environment as evidenced by your picture(s). People complain about the change in the climate but won't bend over to pick up and dispose of a piece of paper or styrofoam or plastic. They think nothing of tossing a cigarette butt/ filter out of their car window. Nobody notices until it all collects in one spot, just like in your picture. Have you ever looked at the cigarette filters next to a highway divider when you are at a stop light? Where do they go? Do they evaporate? The so called environmentalists complain about how big businesses should shut down because they are causing climate change. These are the same people who complain about the over use of oil products yet drive on asphalt roads, fly off on vacations, turn the heat up in the winter yada, yada, yada. Can't they just look around and see what they are doing instead of complaining about others? How did that pollution get to where it is in your picture? Someone put it there one piece at a time. Clean water will do more to help improve the environment than any complaining about what might (or might not) happen in the distant future. If you fish, think about how others affect your happiness. Think about bringing a bag with you when you go fishing. If you see some flotsam, pick it up and recycle it properly. Think about picking it up before it gets to a sewer in your town and then to a waterway.

Keep up the good work, Andy.