Cleaning the beach one day at a time

SM BEACH — While 20 minutes is hardly enough time to save the world, it’s all Sara Bayles needs to make a difference in her community.

The aspiring fiction writer and former special effects makeup artist is more than 60 days deep in her quest to keep Santa Monica State Beach clean, spending 20 minutes over 365 non-consecutive days picking up cigarette butts, plastic wrappers and even hypodermic needles.

Bayles wants to see how many pounds of trash she can collect, weighing and separating recyclables while posting her findings on her blog, www.thedailyocean.blogspot.com. The experiment began in March. Full Story at Santa Monica Daily Press