Word: littered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maraniss, 40, who worries about the damage that beach litter does to marine life, promotes her cause at churches, schools, clubs and conferences. Her message seems to be getting through. At least one oil company has banned Styrofoam cups on its drilling rigs in the Gulf. And next year Texas will require codes on plastic bottles to identify the type of material they are made of, a measure that will make recycling easier...
Adopt-a-beach. Thousands of volunteers will hit the California coastline from San Diego to Oregon, to clear litter and refuse off the beaches...
...costumes and set certainly do not impress. The outfits look like dress-up clothes found in the back of a closet. The police officers inexplicably look like Hell's Angel rejects and the hookers look like Barbie dolls. Minimalist crepe-paper palm trees and a funky beaded curtain litter the stage. A God-only-knows-why velvet Elvis painting completes the perfect tackiness of the scene in the Leverett Old Library. But the acting is good enough to compensate for all that...
...most intrusive visitors are those who tramp through penguin rookeries and other wildlife habitats. Going anywhere near certain kinds of seabirds can frighten them enough to disrupt feeding patterns and reproductive behavior. Though warned not to litter, some tourists leave behind film wrappers, water bottles and cigarette butts. And, yes, Antarctica has graffiti -- on the rocks of Elephant Island...