Ocean Trash Archives - Leave Only Footprints

Easy ways to clean up the beach

By lofadmin|2017-12-20T04:33:15+00:00November 16th, 2016|Blog|0 Comments

Don’t know how to help keep our beaches clean? Let’s start with: If you take it to the beach, take it back with you. Throw your trash in the cans provided. Don’t leave behind plastic bottles, food wrappers, diapers, or even cigarette butts. There are some things not allowed on Alabama beaches, such as glass containers, metal shovels, litter, tents or structures larger than 10 feet by 10 feet, fireworks and fires. And overnight camping is prohibited. The Alabama Coastal [...]

Facts about Ocean Trash

By lofadmin|2016-10-21T00:38:23+00:00October 21st, 2016|Blog|1 Comment

Creating trash-free seas is becoming more challenging each year because of the steady stream of plastic flowing into the world’s oceans. In 2015, the journal Science estimated between 5 and 14 million tons of plastic annually are found in the ocean. Stemming the tide of plastic flowing into the ocean is a necessity for the more than 2.6 billion people who rely on the ocean as a primary source of protein. Leave Only Footprints, the initiative adopted by Gulf Shores [...]