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And lately, the floating heap of refuse has been worse than ever, residents and the South Florida Water Management District agree."It's dumpsters and dumpsters and dumpsters full of trash," says resident Ian Hayes, whose home sits on the river.Frustrated community members have been making calls to village officials, and they're working with the Little River Conservancy to plan a meeting on the issue, though no date has been set. Randy Smith, a spokesperson for the water management district, says the area has long been a problem because people keep dumping trash into the river despite educational campaigns and the threat of fines. The problem has worsened lately because of heavy rains, which have caused faster-moving water that picks up debris and pushes it against the dam, and strong winds, which have blown more garbage into the river."This area, quite frankly, is always problematic for us because it's a very heavily urban area," Smith says. "We end up cleaning this area out more frequently than any of the others simply because of the amount of debris that's thrown into the water." But Hayes says the cleanups, which Smith says happen about twice a year, clearly aren't cutting it. By the time a water management barge comes through to clear the debris, it's built up to obscene levels. The muck floats along the river in giant clumps. Lately, it's been accompanied by a smell Hayes calls horrendous — "like a sewage truck overturned in your driveway." Residents worry about how the garbage might impact the wildlife the village prid... (ant Piles of Floating Trash Are Clogging Little River in El Portal)
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In Florida, 15 percent of families don’t know where they’re going to get their next meal. When you look at children alone, that number increases to almost a quarter who are food insecure, according to Feeding America, one of the largest networks of food banks in the country.While people are struggling to put food on the table, 40 percent of all food in the U.S. is wasted, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Food gets thrown away by grocery stores when it expires, families when it’s too old in the fridge, or in many cases, produce is simply not picked because it's too ugly to sell to a grocery store in the first place.Hungry Harvest, a company featured on Shark Tank, just launched in South Florida and is trying to reduce the amount of food we waste by collecting and selling “ugly” fruits and vegetables.Click here to listen to a conversation with Evan Lutz of Hungry Harvest.The co-founder and CEO of Hungry Harvest, Evan Lutz, spoke with WLRN’s Wilson Sayre from his office... (WLRN)
It blew my mind," says Doebler, founder of VolunteerCleanup.org, which organizes shoreline clean-ups around South Florida. "I was completely floored that this much trash was visible from a satellite circling the Earth." The image illustrates what Doebler says is a major problem. In canals across the region, booms meant to keep powerful dams clear catch huge amounts of garbage that he says is rarely removed. When the floodgates open, he says, some of it makes its way into the bay. Randy Smith, a spokesman for the South Florida Water Management District, which oversees the canals, tells New Times a "routine maintenance program" has been in place for years to deal with the issue. He says very little trash gets through the booms. But Doebler points to a photo he took showing garbage that clearly made it past a boom and collected in front of a dam."That trash doesn't go backwards," he says. "Once those gates open, that trash flows out with the water."From there, he says, it's swept out into Biscayne Bay. And the trash on the surface is in addition to any that's underwater and unseen.Garbage in the ocean has long been a concern. It threatens wildlife by ending up in the stomachs of birds, turtles, and fish that mistake it for food. One study, by the nonprofit World Economic Foundation, shows there will be more ... (Miami New Times)
