Daily beach walks has turned into a garage full of found beach toys — all from a 1-mile stretch of La Jolla Shores.
It all started in March when Gina Pellegrino was walking her dog, named Bob Tucker, on the beach at La Jolla Shores.
All of the toys she found were collected from a 1-mile stretch of La Jolla Shores. She would find a toy, ask around to make sure it didn't belong to anyone in the area or playing in the water, and if she couldn’t give it to anyone at the beach, she would bring it home.It wasn’t until June that she figured this may be a larger ordeal than toys for her favorite out-of-town visitor.
“Summer hit and it just exploded,” Pellegrino said. “To the point where it’s taken up most of my garage. I just had no idea the problem was as great as it was.”“San Diego has so much shoreline and if this is what I’m getting off of 1-mile stretch of beach, I can’t imagine if you were to add Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, Imperial Beach, Oceanside, Del Mar, I can’t imagine how much is really being left on our beaches and how much of it is ending up out in the ocean,” she said.
Since she's become aware of all the toys being left behind, especially the large number of ones that are made out of plastic, she feels she has to do something about it.“I’m not the only one collecting trash. I think I’m just the only one that’s actually started to bring the toys home,” she laughed.
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