To the editor: It’s horrible that even very small items of plastic trash hurt marine animals (“How little plastic does it take to kill marine animals? Scientists have solutions,” Nov. 17). Having picked up trash at Oceano Seashore and Pismo Seashore for years, I’ve seen flattened mylar balloons (in essentially the most distant locations), ubiquitous cigarette butts, toothpick wrappings, plastic grocery luggage, bottle caps, degraded plastics of seaside toys and Styrofoam. These things are simply present in kelp piles, together with white foam beads and exhausting plastics in quite a lot of colours.
I’m grateful to the SeaVenture Seashore Resort for holding month-to-month Pismo Seashore cleanups and to Taylor Lane of the “Cigarette Surfboard” documentary, who has made it a trigger to cease plastic air pollution.
Mark Skinner, Los Osos
