Cleaning Our Beaches

Today we had the awesome help of Exavier, a young boy that was very unhappy about all the trash on the beach so he decided he wanted to help us with one of our daily clean ups. He collected one huge bag of trash weighing 7 pounds. And you want to know the sad part, this was only in about 20 minutes of walking around Hampton Beach. However, in order to make this a less sad situation, the Discovery Center has been doing a beach clean up everyday. In one month, we have collected over one hundred pounds of trash so that we can help keep our oceans clean. Trash is not only disgusting to look at while you are trying to enjoy a lovely day at the beach, but it is also harmful to marine animals and humans. Trash is dirty and is the perfect place for bacteria to grow, therefore it can contaminate water where humans swim. It can also entangle marine animals such as whales, dolphins and sharks. Oops sharks aren't a marine mammal, they are a fish right everyone? Yes, they are a fish because they use gills to breathe and they do not have calcium bones but cartilage instead. Trash can also be ingested by marine birds causing them to fill on plastics and eventually causing them to starve. Therefore, in order to help reduce the horrible effects of trash we at the Blue Ocean Society do a beach clean up everyday at 3:30 PM at our Hampton Beach Discovery Center. Please join us and do your part to make the ocean a little bit cleaner for everyone.