No. 1? In numbers (not volume), that would be cigarette butts. Two? Probably plastic (mostly water) bottles. Then it’s beer cans and coffee cups. About a year ago, it was probably face masks, but that’s leveled off. The most, baffling thing has to be doggie poo bags. Hardly a hike goes by where I d…

Of course! It must’ve been resting for the winter migration.

Back when Third Millennium Alliance was a fairly young organization, and Jama-Coaque was a fairly young reserve, I did an internship there. One of their community service/data collection projects was picking up ocean plastic from the local beach. Among the numerous motor oil bottles, all of which h…

When doing a park cleanup with the girl scouts at a very small local park, we found a large chunk of rotting, waterlogged carpet that had been dumped in an extremely muddy area near a stream. With the help of shovels and a large knife, we managed to dig the whole thing out. More recently, while wal…

When I was stationed at Pearl Harbor, I made a point of visitng the neighbor islands when I could. On a beach on Lana`i I found this plastic bin, which I assumed had come from Japan (don’t worry, this was before Fukushima): [image] Of course, it might not have drifted all the way from Japan; it m…

I asked my friend who is from Singapore and speaks & reads a lot variations, she says “This is kanji. I only read the last 2 characters that mean ‘cold storage’” So…solved last two but not the first.

[image] jasonhernandez74: The second and third characters might mean “refrigeration,” but if so, the third one is missing some strokes. [image] NoGenAI: I only read the last 2 characters that mean ‘cold storage’” Okay, so we both reached the same conclusion there. I suppose that since …

ah she figured out the first one “empty” - it isn’t a verb or noun, “More like a philosophy that celebrates minimalism, empty, or space” the entire thing is “Empty Cold Storage”

[image] NoGenAI: she figured out the first one “empty” Wow, I would never have gotten that. Traditional Chinese: 空 Simplified Chinese and kanji come out the same. But the search gives very exact results: [image]

haha those photos are rather specific! Well, least that got solved :) helps to have a native speaker.

So, someone made a plastic bin that is designed to be cold but not to have anything in it.

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