Ocean Cleaning Day

There are a lot of plastic trash and debris in the ocean.  On the day of Ocean Cleaning Day, we went to local shoreline to join cleaning plastic wastes along the shoreline in Richmond.  It looks clean from the top, but there are a lot of pieces of breaking down plastics when you look carefully among rocks. Those are mostly bottle caps, plastic forks and styrofoam.  It breaks down into small particles and aquatic organisms ingest them accidentally.  My wife and I are trying to minimize plastic waste, but there are a lot around us and not easy to eliminate from our life.  I wonder how people purchased food when plastics were not commonly used for packaging...