Anyone else do this?

[Montauk3]

This is just a couple of weeks pickups.

 

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[DaChief]

I do it here in North Florida. I have a larger solid bag on my side for that stuff. A mesh bag doesn't work because the jagged edges of the trash can gouge your legs or pull and tear your wetsuit.

One of the worst things that we can do as treasure hunters is to leave a beach or park littered with things that we exposed from being buried. I have seen this happen. It doesn't matter who first buried the trash. What matters is the impression we leave. If the general public sees us dig a can out of the ground and then throw it down in plain view, then they look at us as litterers.

It is a good thing that you do and I hope for the sake of the hobby that most of us do the same. Any excuse people can use to ban us from beaches and parks is ammunition for them. We don't need to give them any more than they can think up on their own.

Take care,

Jim

 

[Sandman]

I remove all the junk i dig up or see on the sand. I used to save all the smaller water trash in 5 gal. buckets for what reason i'll never know.

 

[TooManyHobbies]

The cans are recyclable up here in CT, so that's at least another .15 in clad.
It's frozen up here, well now it's raining like crazy, but a couple days ago I walked around at the highschool, found .61 clad, and picked up a pocket full of small trash. I won't have to remove it later with my detector. It still amazes me that people drop their garbage like the world is their trashcan. Ever since the Indian on the side of the highway crying....I'm aging myself.

 

[JOE(USA)]

Montauk3,

Good man! Haul that trash out. I also pick up trash even if there are no cans at the location to put it into. I believe that picking up trash, even if it's not ours is the single most important thing we can do to save our hobby.
I still see where people detecting have dug a hole, left the junk next to the hole and didn't even bother to fill the hole back in!! This is the height of laziness. Joe

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I keep a 5 gal. pail in my station wagon for the trash I pick up. Several times it has drawn favorable remarks from the park crew and public. It's just the right thing to do.

 

[guzz1]

Hey  Ralph That's  pretty dangerous  stuff laying  on  the beach  for  toddler  to  step into . I  have  15 month old baby  hate  have  to  take  him to  the  hospital  for  stitches  because  some  idiot forgot  where  the  trash cans  were  located. I see that crap  on  the beach  all  the  time  it  just ticks  me  off  to  no  end  that  people can be  that  friggon stupid ... nice job picking that  stuff up,, you just save  someone  or  a little guy like  mine a  trip to  hospital.. Outstanding  ,, Guzz1

 

[vegasmtl]

I keep a 5 gal. pail in my station wagon for the trash I pick up. Several times it has drawn favorable remarks from the park crew and public. It's just the right thing to do.

I do the same thing, have a bucket that it all goes into. I have a language barrier to deal with here, and showing a pocket full of trash to someone who is curious will stop alot of issues for me

We live on an island, and the trash just never leaves. They have mandatory recycling here, but it amazes me how much trash the locals will leave lying around. Some local folks here aren't happy with us Americans having such a presence on such a small island, but they sure seem to be screwing it up more than we are!

Also, I don't think anyone who doesn't do this will respond!

HH
vegasmtl

 

[Dirt Fishin Dale]

I keep what I dig up. But if I picked up everything in view on the beach
I would have to pull a dumpster behind me.

 

[Captain Trips]

I can't tell you how much trash I've removed from our beaches -- it comes to much more than my "keepers."

I've discovered for myself why we have a law here that oak pallets are NOT allowed on the beach for bonfires. Nails. Rusty nails. I once pulled out a clump that must have weighed 2-3 pounds! One mother who saw me do so was *VERY* grateful for my civic-mindedness. Imagine if her young one stepped on that! (I know what that's like. As a kid, I once stepped on a rusty nail. I was lucky, my folks got me to the doctor right away for a tetanus shot. But imagine the tourists on our beaches!)

Keep up the good work -- more positive propaganda for our hobby!

 

[Monty]

I tried to clean up a lakeside beach last fall, but it was so covered with beer cans broken glass and trash that I just couldn't do it alone. The lake was several feet below normal due to a drought last year and most of this stuff was normally out in the swimming area. I couldn't believe what nasty hogs some of our society is. Monty

 

[Korban]

Ive never detected on a beach (yet) but when I go surfing I always pick up sharp objects that I see and toss them.