Posted: Dec 22, 2020 9:00 AM NT | Last Updated: January 3 comments
Nancy Pearson picks up a bag (or two) of litter each day on Black Bank Beach, as well as organizing community clean up days, and posts about her progress on Instagram.(Submitted by Nancy Pearson)
A daily beach walk, soaked in gorgeous scenery of Newfoundland s west coast, sounds like the ideal tonic to 2020.
But the modern world is impossible to leave behind on Nancy Pearson s strolls along Black Bank Beach, near Stephenville Crossing. She began her treks six years ago, when she moved home after decades away to find her childhood sandy playground awash in indestructible residue: plastic.