{"id":71083,"date":"2025-11-26T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71083\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:23:09","slug":"harmful-small-pieces-of-trash-litter-californias-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71083\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmful, small pieces of trash litter California\u2019s beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Nov. 26, 2025 11 AM PT  <\/p>\n<p>To the editor: It is horrible that even very small pieces of plastic trash harm marine animals (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/story\/2025-11-17\/ocean-plastic-kills-sea-creatures-new-report-shows-only-small-amount-is-required\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHow little plastic does it take to kill marine animals? Scientists have answers,\u201d<\/a> Nov. 17). Having picked up trash at Oceano Beach and Pismo Beach for years, I\u2019ve seen flattened mylar balloons (in the most remote places), ubiquitous cigarette butts, toothpick wrappings, plastic grocery bags, bottle caps, degraded plastics of beach toys and Styrofoam. These items are easily found in kelp piles, along with white foam beads and hard plastics in a variety of colors.<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful to the SeaVenture Beach Hotel for holding monthly Pismo Beach cleanups and to Taylor Lane of the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33036238\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cCigarette Surfboard\u201d documentary<\/a>, who has made it a cause to stop plastic pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Skinner, Los Osos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 26, 2025 11 AM PT To the editor: It is horrible that even very small pieces of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[174,41804,7,9,8,41803,2072,41809,41806,25187,41802,6230,41800,41807,41805,41801,41808,40925],"class_list":["post-71083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-beach","tag-bottle-cap","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-degraded-plastic","tag-editor","tag-hard-plastic","tag-oceano-beach","tag-pismo-beach","tag-plastic-grocery-bag","tag-scientist","tag-small-piece","tag-styrofoam","tag-toothpick-wrapping","tag-trash-litter-california","tag-ubiquitous-cigarette-butt","tag-variety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}