Little Penguins

I am down at Collins Flat Beach on Monday evenings as a Little Penguin volunteer. This is a beautiful little harbour beach, and I see the most amazing sunsets against the backdrop of Sydney Harbour, with the ferries going past. However what I mostly seem to do is pick up rubbish whilst I am there, and I collect plastic as that is what concerns me most. So I see what washes in. These are the things that I would ban if I could. Lollipop sticks, you know, the small white plastic ones, balloons with long ribbons on them that get caught around anything, seaweed, birds. Have you ever tried to break or snap one of these ribbons? It is so difficult and there are so many of them. I hate them with a passion. Where do people think they go as they sail off into the sky? We could have paper ribbons on them which would solve the problem. And plastic straws, so many plastic straws on the beach. Water bottle tops and their plastic rings, I find more and more of these. The other stuff is more random. 
Some people see us picking up rubbish and say that they do too, which is terrific. Some one asked me last night 'What can you do?' And I said that you could either pick it up, not drop it or both.