Museum of Litter

Sanibel Island, FL: The water's fine. Come on down.

Happy to report hardly any litter and no oil as of July 26. Sanibel Island beaches are pristine.

Didn't do much litter picking on Sanibel ...not much there. Mostly, played tourist and rode bikes in preserve and bike paths. I LOVE Sanibel. They've done a fabulous at preserving the natural environment of Old Florida. Last morning there I intended to pick up enough cigarette butts from the beach to make an angel. It takes about 12 butts to make a cigarette butt angel and I couldn't find enough. A good sign!

Litter Donations -- June 22, 2009 -- Sanibel Island, FL and The Everglades

Went back to Sanibel's Lighthouse Beach late this morning before leaving the island and collected only cigarette butts for future litter art. It was pretty hot -- they were having a heat advisory -- so just collected a small zip lock bag full in fifteen minutes.

  On the way back to the east coast on Alligator Alley,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGijPkAxLt8&feature=channel_page

we stopped in the Everglades at a recreation area and did a quick pickup of cigarette butts and bottle caps in the parking lot.

 

 

A Sanibel Gallery now carrying Museum's Litter Art

There's a great new gallery on Sanibel Island called Art in the Tree Tops Gallery. The Museum of Litter is excited to announce the gallery has accepted four pieces of our LItter Art on consignment. Owner Barbara Manghan is enthusiastic about the art and message, and we're really glad to have our work in more venues to bring attention to litter and litter prevention. If you're in Sanibel, be sure to stop in to say hi -- tell them the Museum of Litter sent you -- and check out all the wonderful art in this gallery. It's on Periwinkle Way,1101 Periwinkle Way #102, right across the street from the Dairy Queen.

Litter Donations -- June 21, 2009 -- Sanibel Island, FL

The first photo shows one of two bags of litter collected this morning. This was picked up around 8:30 to 9:30 from Tarpon Bay Road Beach. Fortunately, Sanibel is pretty clean, although there are still lots of cigarette butts and a fair number of bottle caps. VERY impressed with Sanibel and Sanibel residents. While they can't prevent littering, the residents are very conscious about keeping the beach clean and removing litter. They do this on their own, no trucks or beach rakers are allowed on the beach. The  beach is natural, with seaweed left in place.

On the right is the second bag of litter picked up from around 10-11am at the Lighthouse beach. Lots of cigarette butts, a plastic bag, juice packs, bottle caps and miscellaneous bits of plastic. Met two interesting women from the Cape (here in FL), Pam and "C", who are in marketing and promote green businesses and are interested in the Museum of Litter. Can't wait to do something with them.