Rubbish test 1 close to the parking lot and bin:
"I tested this on a quiet day during the week. The results were interesting 16/22 people picked up and placed the bottle in the rubbish bin. 16 of those 16 were local people. The 6 who did not pick it up 2 of them were local. I found this interesting that local people would backtrack to throw it out, I even had one man who was going to bring it with him as he walked on the beach and toss it out when he was returning home. I think this is a good indicator that the community is committed to keeping the beaches clean."
"I repeated my test on a busy day, same location. 61/158 people threw the bottle out, 42 of those 61 were locals. The majority of the people who did not were visitors to Piha. This to me is alarming as it seems visitors are not as concerned about litter as the locals; it could be this lack of concern that gives people from Piha a sense of responsibility to clean up what they can. It was also noted that the rubbish bin was filling up and people would start placing their garbage along side the bin or on top of it. This resulted in trash blowing around, seagulls spreading it about, and a generally disgusting aesthetic look."
Rubbish Test 2 Out on the Beach:
I again did the same test except quite a bit further away from the rubbish bins and out in the open in plain sight of everyone on the beach. I thought this test was relavent just so I could test to see if the results of the previous test was only due to being so close to the rubbish bins or possibly if the majority of locals threw it out because they knew were rubbish bins were located.
"On the quiet day 4/16 picked it up and walked to the bin. 2/16 kicked it towards the dune so "hightide would not take it away" 3/16 picked it up and continued walking down the beach stating they were going to throw it out when they arrived at a bin. Of the 9 who ackknowledged the bottle all of them were local. The 7 who dismissed it 5 visitors and 2 locals"
"The busy day test was extremely difficult. It was exceptionally busy today and was estimated about 700 people were on the beach at peak hours. Amazingly, I figured it would be a very busy day asking people if they were local or not and testing, BUT only 28 people actually responded to the bottle in any way. I think that this test however was flawed, due to the mass amounts of people I think that the bottle could be considered "owned" by the nearest person. I also had difficulty placing the bottle into position as people would almost immediatly say "you dropped your bottle" Regardless, the results were 27/28 were locals, 1 visitor. I decided to end my test when a little girl wanted to build a sand castle around it."
Test 3 Trail rubbish test
I have to admit this test seemed a bit odd simply because I had to hide in the bushes as I did not want people to think since I was closest to the bottle that it belonged to me.
Quiet day results:
4/9 took bottle
4/4 who took bottle were local
8/9 were local
1/9 were visitors
Busy day results:
26/39 took bottle
14/26 who took bottle were local
21/39 were local
18/39 were visitors
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