It Ain't Pretty

Long Beach has a lot going for it. Unfortunately, sometimes the LA River isn’t so pretty. So Long Beach gets all the trash that falls on city streets, is swept through the stormdrain system into the LA River and makes its way straight to the port.  Good news, though.  Starting now, 16 cities in LA County are putting super cool grates in their stormdrains, which means that when your neighbor throws his Styrofoam coffee cup out the window of his car, instead of being eaten by sea birds it will be caught in the grate and taken to a landfill.  Now you just need to work on getting that neighbor to switch to a reusable cup…
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/keeping-trash-from-going-with-the-flow-into-the-la-river.html