Stop Oregon Litter and Vandalism, or SOLV, is a non-profit organization that provides resources to communities throughout Oregon, focusing on litter cleanup, tree planting and invasive removal projects. March 20th, 2010 was the annual SOLV statewide beach cleanup. Diana Bartlett, Beach Cleanup Coordinator said, "On a beautiful but windy first day of spring on the Oregon coast, nearly 4,200 volunteers headed to the beach to clean much of the 362 miles of Oregon coastline earlier today. Volunteers found the beaches covered with large amounts of trash and debris that had washed ashore during winter storms, and removed an estimated 70,500 pounds of trash from the coast."
I contacted 16 SOLV Beach Zone Captains to see if they might ask their volunteers to save any flip-flops found along the entire coast of Oregon for the Beach Found Footwear project. The word got out to a few folks and a huge thank you too all the volunteers and captains for rounding up 71 flip-flops on a single day!
Zone 1 (Astoria) = 19 flipflops
Zone 3 (Rockaway Beach) = 5-6 flipflops
Zone 4 (Tillamook) = 21 flipflops
Zone 6 (Lincoln City) = 2 flipflops (1 pair)
Zone 7 (Newport) = 11 flipflops
Zone 13 ("Dog Beach" north of Port Orford) = 1 flipflop
Zone 14 (Gold Beach) = 12 flipflops
SOLV CleanUp March 20th approximate totals = 71 flipflops
Now flip-flops are waiting for me up and down the coast - rounding up the flips and the flops in all manner of sorts:
