If we're simply relying on people like myself or others that go out and pick up the coastline by hand, we've lost.

We are at the end of a very long stream, and we are simply trying to mitigate the worst impacts of these materials.

Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. You know, when you think

of Miami, you don't necessarily think of, at least I don't, of, you know, environmentalism or

adventure sports, really. I think of, you know, the Miami Heat and that whole, you know, Miami Vice

culture. And I've been down there quite a bit you know being from Florida but I haven't done a

ton of outdoor things around there Miami does back up to the Everglades which is this massive

expanse of wilderness it's a huge huge national park that preserves a lot of incredibly unique land

but it's also kind of an intimidating place just because it's so swampy.

There's a lot of things that can kill you.

Yeah, it's pretty intimidating, honestly.

But Andrew Otazo is born and raised in Southwest Florida.

He's the son of Cuban immigrants, and he has made it his mission

to kayak and bike and run around the Miami area and making it as absolutely clean as possible.

And so far over the last few years, he has been kayaking to different keys, which are essentially small islands all around the

Miami area and the Key Biscayne area that are filled with these mangroves. It's a type of tree that

grows and it kind of acts as like its roots act as a filter between the water and land on these

islands. And so they trap a lot of trash,

trap a lot of garbage.

Literally,

Andrew is kayaking around to these places

and hauling off thousands of pounds of trash

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