Josey Peters has been on a mission since 2007 to clean up other people's messes in public areas.
The first piece of trash Josey Peters found on the beach was a flattened paper cup. He bent down, as he would hundreds of times in the next two hours, and tossed the cup into a big black garbage bag slung over his shoulder.
Summer arrived early in Los Angeles, with temperatures topping 100 degrees in some areas on Tuesday. So people traded asphalt for surf and sand. Even at 6 p.m., thousands of people still lounged and frolicked on Santa Monica’s main beach. L.A.’s summer anthem of squawking gulls and shrieking children rose above the rhythm of crashing waves and floated on the evening breeze.
Peters attended a military academy as a youngster, worked in cannabis and organic produce, looks eternally ready for the band to get back together, and otherwise belongs in a Thomas Pynchon novel. He is currently between jobs. He used to live in an RV but hasn’t owned a vehicle in years, and doesn’t want one. He rides his bike to the beach from the Venice bungalow he shares with 10 people, heads down to the water’s edge and makes his contribution to the planet.
Most people do the right thing, making use of the 380 trash bins and 120 recycling bins placed on the beach by the city of Santa Monica. Spokesperson Constance Farrell said they’re collected daily, and tractors come along every day to groom the sand and pick up any extra trash.Peters picks up bottles and cans on wet sand but doesn’t bag them because that would weigh him down. He tosses them onto the dry sand for pickup by the tractors.
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