Justin Bieber Pulled Trash With Us! | Boynton Beach

I'm Alex with 4Ocean and today we're going to be cleaning plastic out of the ocean. We found cast nets, gas cans, plastic and debris and we even saw Justin Bieber. Let's do it y'all. It is Friday and we are heading out to clean some plastic. So we've got prime conditions, winds are only two miles an hour, three knots, we got a falling tide. It is looking absolutely beautiful out there. The ocean is nice and calm. So today we're going to head to Boynton. We're going to be looking for all sorts of trash and plastic. We're hitting the boat and today we actually got a little special guest coming out with you so it's gonna be a good time. Let's do it y'all. Back up Terry, what you doing Terry? Oh golly, I don't know about you guys but I'm just tickled pink to be out here. So we just cleared the inlet and had to go check out the ocean and it is beautiful out. But now we're heading to the normal spot, one of our areas where plastic accumulates. That's right up here on this front side. So what happens is the inlet's over there, plastic comes in and then the wind pushes it over into this corner. So up in these mangos it's probably going to be pretty loaded and we're going to check it out. There's a ton of seaweed, a ton of sargassum seaweed. So let's go see what we're going to find. Alright so we just got to this beach and the first thing that we come across is this. A needle. Pretty wild to see. All the sorts of stuff that washes up in the beach. But if you ever find a needle try and keep a sharps container with you. Always bring the needle to the sharps container. No sorry, wrong. Bring the sharps container to the needle, not the needle to the sharps container. Always get that going but it's wild to see. All this stuff is just washing up from the tide line here. There's tons of plastic but we're gonna get this stuff coastline clean, get her cleaned up. Little net mixed in, all sorts of stuff. Alright we got one bucket full. Nice work Jake. Hot dog. Look at that, that's a big old entanglement. So it's crazy to see on this beach or this little area. Like we come back and clean this area so often but it's just like a magnet. It's in a corner in a cove and the wind always pushes so you have that inlet pushing all that water in. But this is, we'll clean this up in a matter of a week or two it's just loaded with plastic again. But it's not even only small things. Like you have everything from microplastics in these tiny pieces to even giant things like this big old beam back here. It's pretty wild to see what what washes up on a regular basis. A lot of the questions that we get are what are microplastics? And microplastics are small plastic particles that have broken up from more macroplastics. So think of a large piece of plastic like this that might be a jug or something like this. Well over time the UV degradation, the wind, the waves, that will break this plastic down. It becomes very brittle and then at that point it starts falling apart. And what you end up seeing is this right here. So like this is all examples of tiny little microplastic pieces that have started out as a bigger piece of plastic and you can see here it's nearly impossible to clean up. It's mixed with all the organic material and so a lot of this gets confused for food. Basically animals that are ingesting it, plankton that's ingesting it. It's working its way up the food chain and this microplastic is really endocrine disruptors. It's causing harm to humans and it's really affecting our abilities all across the board. So this is why microplastics are such a gnarly issue. That's why we try and get the large pieces of plastic before it breaks down into this because as you can imagine like look at how hard this is to clean up. It's just unreal all the materials that are on there. It's just like crazy. So got to clean up the big pieces before they get small. Wild. Filled up a full bucket in a matter of like a couple minutes over here. It's insane. Got another one. Oh you definitely need a tic-tac or something because you don't wear a stain. But name the movie. That's the movie. All right I got to show you this. Working in the mangroves. Cleaning up plastic. It's got its risks. It's got its dangers and I'm going to show you something that I almost just walked into and didn't even think about. So check this out. You're cleaning plastic. You got all the debris. You see some stuff back there. You're going to try and walk through it and then bam. Look at that thing. Look at that thing. It takes the size of my face. Come keep your distance. Tell you what it's just a gorgeous day out here. I'm just tickled pink to be out here you know. You work out in the office all week and then you get outside you can get in this area. Look at all this plastic. We got a net. We got a straw. Crazy amounts of bottle caps. All sorts of this is microplastic. Plastic debris breaking down into small pieces. Melted plastic and then store all sorts of stuff. Connie Stinger energy waffle. You thought I was gonna do it. Probably staying. Channel 5 Action News. I'm Ron Burgundy. So this is one of the yellow bottles that we always find on cleanup. So this is a vinegar bottle. So it says vinaigrette on the side. And so the crazy thing is that this is coming from the Caribbean. It's coming from Dominican Republic. Even Haiti. But what we're seeing is that they always show up and they have these small little marks on them. And what these are is it's actual bite marks. So you can see right there there's small little chips that are taken out. That fish. Most likely trigger fish. Trigger fish and jacks. But it's these fish that are pecking at these things. These are yellow bottles that are always showing up on the coastline. We find them on our cleanups all the time. It just shows that plastic travels incredibly far distances floating in the ocean. Ends up washing up on Florida's coastline. And in the process it's being ingested and eaten by animals. No plastic left behind. Oh we got another lure. Oh wow. Yeah that's a sick one. That right there is a nice lure. Ready to rock my man? All right so we're heading to the next spot. We got this coastline looking pretty clean. There's some small tiny microplastics that are very hard to clean. But for the most part we got all the big stuff and filled up a whole bin. Pretty wild to see. All sorts of stuff. Big old piece of lumba. Chimba! That's a good way to get a shade on. I'm always taking casualties out on cleanups dude. I'm always getting cut up and scrapped up and banged up. Do it for the ocean dude. All right guys we have got a gnarly net here so check this out. This is an old cast net that somebody threw on here. And it is stuck all sorts of ways. Oh man. We're going deep in the mangroves so check this out. Got the intercoastal here. We got all sorts of stuff. So this is a part of an old bait trap. All big plastic life jacket stuff like that. Whoa whoa whoa. I don't know what that was. A mix between a snake and a ferret. It was like a black thing that moved too quick to be... Watch your feet. Keep them high. You know such traps. These are their root structures right. So these small pieces coming down are the roots for the mangrove tree. And what happens is these materials wash up and then with the waves they lap back and forth. And so they end up wrapping and getting all sorts of twisted in here. And then you'll find something like this that'll have fishing line, it'll have a lure, it'll have a hook or something in it. And that's for like birds right. Egrets, herons, ibis birds. All different birds will come into these different areas. They might sit on this tree and you'll see they get hooked. And our captains and crew. Yep actually right here. Perfect example. Here's all the fishing line that's mixed with it. So you've got your synthetic fishing line. This is like a power pro or like a braided line. And that's that's exactly how it starts. Fishing line, fishing hooks, and all sorts of stuff. But our captains and crew have come across so many different birds hanging from trees. Hanging from stuff. A lot of them we've been able to save and intervene. But a lot of them we have not. So that's why we're always grabbing this stuff out of the trees and trying to keep it fun. Yeah there's like another example of all the mixed up fishing lines. Cool man. Cool. Feeling very cool. Not thrilled about this one. Not gonna lie. But these cushions tend to soak up all sorts of sand and water and mud. But let's see if we can if we can get this out. Because it's got foam. That foam breaks down into crazy amounts of microplastics. There's no way I can move this thing. It weighs a zillion pounds. Yeah see that's a piece of cushion. Got a night crawler. So this is a standard cushion. So this material is like a vinyl. It's exterior. And then you've got two different materials. So you've got your cushions. The padded cushions. But then like a like a polyester fill. So let's look at how close this is. This is all this is plastic right. So this is the plastic film that's going to slowly slowly break down. These things sit here in the waves. Knock them back and forth. They're hard to get out. But you got to cut them into small pieces. That way you can actually get this stuff out. I gotta say dude. What a beautiful day. You know it's such a crazy dynamic. Like polar opposites right. You're sitting in the office or behind a computer working with remote teams. And you get to come out here. It's a beautiful blueberry sky day. I mean it's a little nasty. A little gnarly. You can sit in front of a computer all day long. Look at this stylish handbag. I'll tell you what. I don't know. I'll be honest with you. A lot of debris. Got all sorts of debris out there. You got frisbees. Protein tubs. Got seed of a turlet. I'm gonna start raining now. So this is an old oyster habitat. So like basically this is originally designed so that oysters can grow and help filter the water. But sometimes these things break apart. So you've got these little vinyl boards and pvc. We gotta get this out. Yeah. Just have to bump up the salinity of the water. People say this thing can't find no trash. Come on. We get the smell. Find it. This needs to be like a segment that we do. We always find these. I just play gushy man. That's cool. I would love to have my backyard like this. Yeah. Privacy. Beautiful mangroves. We got wildlife. They're just living on here man. Beautiful. Beautiful little mangrove area. They're just living. Just hanging. I salute you Mr. and Mrs. Duck. I freaking love mangroves. I literally in the morning sit and have coffee there. In Marca where I grew up every morning it's like we call like the bird highway. So when the sun rises we'd sit on the back porch. Sit on the dock. And it's like this only it's more thick brush and every morning just like egrets heron ibis birds like unbelievable amount of birds are just just moving you know as the sun rises coming out of the trees and it's just so peaceful. Solid day. All the trash is secure now it's time to head back to the shop. All right guys that is 432 pounds of trash and plastic removed from our oceans and coastlines. Thank you guys so much for watching along. Having some fun. We had our we had our guy over here. We had JB. We had JB. Where you at Justin? Come on out buddy. Guys tag him below. We're trying to get Justin to come out on a cleanup with us to clean some plastic and have a good time. But thank you guys so much for watching. We really appreciate it. Let us know where do you want to see us clean up? Do you want to see us diving? Do you want to see us in the mangroves? We're getting after it every day and anything that you guys want to see we'll bring it to you. So thanks so much for watching. Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, show us some love. All the love that you are showing are actually showing our captains and crew out there cleaning every single day. So we appreciate you guys. Thank you so much. We'll see you on the next video. Cheers guys.