Clean Swell 2025-09-18T12:52:27Z
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I remember the day vividly—it was a crisp autumn morning, and I was walking along the muddy banks of the local river, a place I often visited to clear my head. The sight that greeted me was nothing short of heartbreaking: plastic bottles bobbing in the water, food wrappers caught in the reeds, and a general sense of neglect that made my chest tighten with anger and helplessness. For years, I'd felt like a lone voice in the wilderness, picking up litter only to see it return days later, as if my
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Salt spray stung my eyes as I stared at the massacre along Cape Cod's shoreline - cigarette butts nesting in dune grass like toxic birds' eggs, plastic shards mimicking seashells, a gutted fish corpse wrapped in six-pack rings. My hands trembled with useless rage until cold aluminum bit my palm: my phone, forgotten until now. That's when I remembered the promise whispered among marine biology grad students - the digital catalyst turning rage into research.