Rummaging through the rubbish

So for an unfortunately large amount of time I have been set up in the garage sorting out the rubbish that was collected on the colony clean-ups. Due to the large number of bags that were collected, I simplified my life somewhat and did a relatively simple sort –material-like, bones, paper and plastic rubbish. Thankfully, the rubbish was well sun-bleached and didn’t have any of the rotting food/garbage smell that is associated with household waste, but sun, sand, wind and water had cleaned most of the pieces quite thoroughly and what was left of an odour was mildly offensive, but tolerable. The Lookout beach colony is a much smaller areas than the main peninsula, and was covered by only 4 of us whereas the peninsula was covered by a big team from CoastCare and CapeNature. The results were not surprising: an overwhelming bias towards plastics on both of the Keurbooms colonies!

Summary

	Lookout beach	Peninsula
Material-like (g)	25	805
Bones (g)	225	155
Paper (g)	150	1110
Plastics (g)	315	7140

Let the sorting begin!

My more advanced setup..

Part of the end result.