I spent 45 minutes at Santa Monica picking up bottle caps and straws last Saturday, then realized the sand was full of tiny plastic bits I couldn't grab. Two volunteers argued about whether we should chase the small stuff or just haul out the obvious junk. Has anyone found a method for microplastics that doesn't take forever, or do we just accept the limits?
Last Saturday we got dumped on during the Ocean Beach cleanup and my gloves were soaked through with sand sticking to everything. I remembered someone saying to wet your hands before putting on nitrile gloves under your work gloves, so I tried it. The wet layer keeps the sand from grinding against your skin and the gloves slip on way easier. Now I always keep a small water bottle in my bucket just for that. Has anyone else tried this or do you have a better way to handle wet weather cleanups?
I was hauling a soaked beach towel stuffed with bottle caps and a broken sandal when the hinge just snapped, leaving me to fish trash out of wet sand with a stick for 20 minutes. Anyone else find the heavy-duty grabbers fail faster than the cheap ones, or did I just get a dud?