Beach garbage: N.S. woman captures shoreline cleanups for social media
Global News
A Nova Scotia woman is using social media to chronicle her journey of cleaning up garbage and debris from the Bay of Fundy shoreline.
A Nova Scotia woman is chronicling her journey of cleaning up garbage and debris from the Bay of Fundy shoreline.
Karen Jenner, from Lakeville, N.S., says beach-cleaning is something she’s always done with her family before it became her passion.
“We went to the beach a lot with our kids,” she said. “To keep them busy while we were there… we would just tell them to find a rope and they could put anything on the rope that had a hole in it. That might be another piece of rope that had a loop in it, or a container that had a handle.
“They would be quite amused dragging this long rope around.”
The family would then bring the ropes home and dispose of what wasn’t recyclable.
Several years ago, Jenner began going to beaches herself to collect more garbage — starting with debris from lobster traps.
“I quickly had 500 of them… and I found that I quite enjoyed doing that, so I started collecting other things.”
Jenner said she was surprised with the items she was finding along shorelines, and thought others might be too. That’s when she began documenting her findings on social media.
