BlueTube makes it easy for people to keep beaches clean and keep plastic out of the ocean. They are bright blue containers at dune crossovers that are filled with clean, used plastic bags. Next time you head to the beach, grab a bag, pick up trash and throw it away. Donate your used bags to the BlueTube, and the cycle continues.
Some of our beach trash is fresh, probably left by careless visitors, but most washes ashore from far off places. The next time we get Sargassum seaweed on our beaches, look for bottle caps, plastic forks and a lot of weathered pieces of plastic mixed in. More and more of our trash is plastic, and this doesn’t decompose like organic trash. It lasts. That weathered plastic on our beach could be part of a bleach jug that washed out to sea in the Caribbean years ago, was carried by currents, fragmented into small pieces and came ashore here.
The good news is that plastic is easy to remove from the beach, especially with a bag and a gentle reminder from a BlueTube. With many people picking up a little trash up and down the coast all the time, we will keep our beaches beautiful and put a dent in ocean plastic.
So far there are BlueTubes at sixty dune crossovers. Most of these are at Brevard beaches. BlueTubes are funded through sponsorships, and a portion of sponsor money goes towards scientific research on ocean plastic.
Questions? Comments?
Visit the website: www.BlueTubeBeach.org
email: info@BlueTubeBeach.org
Call: 321-265-4604