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  • We’ll be talking trash tonight in the Washed Ashore exhibition space at the San Diego Natural History Museum during Nat at Night. Our ocean on the ropes… M is for millions of microplastics. Morning After Mess beach cleanups in San Diego county on the dirtiest beach day of the year! Never-ending nurdles… This Statue of Liberty created with plastic marine debris was made by 10-year-old several years ago. It’s still one of my all time favorites. Marine debris mystery: I ran a reverse-image search on this wrapper, and AI identified it as packaging from a fluorescent pink permanent paint marker sold under the Daiso brand for the Brazilian market. There have been a lot of microplastics on the beach recently. During my last cleanup, I picked up about 200 nurdles along with countless colorful fragments. It’s always shocking how invisible it is to most beachgoers. People sit on the sand right in the middle of it and don’t notice anything until I start picking up. They often ask if I’m collecting shells, which gives me the opportunity to show them what I’m doing, explain what nurdles are, and share my concerns about the plastic pollution crisis. Southern California’s Sand Toy Borrow Box movement keeps growing! Yesterday, a new box was installed near the San Clemente Pier, and I found another one a bit farther south at Califia State Beach. Where should the next one go?
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