This was not that long ago. I remember walking along PCH when I was a kid in the late 60’s and picking up dozens of returnable soda bottles that people chucked out of the windows of their cars among the glass from all the broken ones. We have come a long way in the litter department!
Photos from Chris Epting’s post in You know you grew up in Huntington Beach, CA when…
1957: Newspaper caption – "At ‘Tin Can Beach’ Orange County’s 3-mile beach playground between Sunset Beach and Huntington Beach, summer’s litterbugs have left annual 30 tons of empty cans, bottles, food cartons, paper plates, steak bones, corn cobs and old shoes. Photo show rusty ‘path to the sea’ through junk".