The Ocean City Council and volunteer groups are tackling trash from cigarette butts to paper plates on the beach but the staff that drives the beach sweepers say that glass buried under the sand is becoming a bigger problem.
“Over the last three years, we’ve been finding more alcohol bottles and glass, and it’s getting worse each year,” said Public Works Deputy Director John VanFossen. “With a paper cup or a plate, our beach sanitizers gets it easily. But they’ll bury the bottles under the surface of the sand and someone could step on it.”
Every night starting around 9 p.m., roughly six Public Works employees get to work cleaning the beach. Leading the charge is the “Beast from the East,” a hydraulic trash truck designed to go on the beach and collect trash from the 800 barrels without stopping. Two hours later, five beach sweeper tractors, side by side, start cleaning up the litter from the day before.
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4 comments:
This happens when you make so many "can not do" laws. Plus its only May-Sept anyway! There seems not to be a care the rest of the time with bars/restaurants practically on every other corner!
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....cake and eat it too I see!!
Stopped going to that beach decades ago. Plenty of beaches where you can drink on the beach and not be surrounded by trashy people.
Each/every year we have more fun out on the bay (during "season") then take back the beach the rest of the time. After soooo many years doing this, reality is the north end of the bay has plenty of places to post up for the day and enjoy - WITHOUT any interruptions. No waves, the water is warmer and barbequing works fine!
Because before, there was no such thing as glass containers, everything was made of plastic, right?
SMH!
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