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Trash on the beach. Why?
I happened to be in Ocean City, Maryland this fourth of July (as well as last year). When I’ve been here for the holiday, I’ve been amazed at the amount of money that folks spend on contraband fireworks to set off on the beach. We end up getting a semi-pro firework display right in front of where we stay. The privately funded display seems to go on forever. So thank you to the people the illegally import fireworks and then set them off for everyone’s enjoyment. I am however saddened by the amount of trash that these fireworks generate, and the careless disregard to the beach and the people who enjoy it.
Today while we walked the beach, we picked up countless spent fireworks. I know it’s fun to shoot this stuff off, but how about some general clean up. On the topic of cleaning up why can’t the people staying in Ocean City pick up after themselves? Beer cans, water bottles, broken beach chairs and umbrellas, and countless amounts of everything else you can imagine littered the beach this morning.
I came across a group of guys standing on the beach drinking beer. I could not help but notice the shallow pit they had dug and filled with beer cans. I’m hoping that they did that to keep them from rolling away, and they were not buried later. What happened to the “No Drinking on the beach” rules anyways?
It’s a beach folks, can’t we just keep it clean? I’m not a freak for rules enforcement, but it appears that Ocean City is doing nothing to enforce any of the rules they have set forth. People should not have to pick their way though the trash that other people have left behind.
