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The Los Angeles times recently picked up a story from Ft. Lauderdale that discusses how effective the SURF RAKE is at picking up seaweed and other beach debris. In addition to removing man-made garbage from the beaches, it highlights an environmentally beneficial use for the massive amounts of seaweed the SURF RAKE removes from the beach--compost. Some highlights:
"The seaweed is constant. In November, said Almy, the beach patrol picked up 300 tons of seaweed, which is moved from the bucket of the Surf Rake into a dump truck and hauled off for composting." "Beach cleanup begins at 5:30 a.m., when Bennie Lynch fires up one of three new Caterpillar Challenger tractors: ... rubber-tracked yellow and black behemoths that pull a Barber Surf Rake so sensitive it can pluck a cigarette butt from wet sand." Find the full article here: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-florida-beaches-20120108,0,1637350.story#tugs_story_display
5 Comments
2/5/2012 07:56:52 pm
We would like to know if you really mean "seaweed" in the sence of algae, and not "seagrass", the marine flowering plant which must be distinguished from seaweed, which are algae. 2/9/2012 05:52:39 am
Hi Bernhard--Thanks for your question.
Hallo, Kevin,
4/23/2014 10:21:37 pm
Hallo, Kevin, 6/9/2016 02:00:55 am
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