Since 2013, crews with the nonprofit Friends of Palm Beach have headed out each week to catalog and collect trash that flows onto the town’s beaches.
And after each pickup, the organization has published on its social media pages the types of waste it collected on the beach, founder Diane Buhler told the Daily News.
In 2020, those posts inadvertently sparked a multi-year scientific investigation, the result of which were published earlier this year, into the mysterious origins of the oil-covered plastics that regularly make their way onto Palm Beach’s coastline…