A couple weekends ago, our basketball team had a beach clean-up on the north shore at some beach park. We were able to raise money to help pay for our trip to Tennessee this Christmas. Anyway, while we were picking up trash, I realized that there was physics involved everytime someone threw the pieces of trash away. The amount of work required to lift different sizes of trash off the ground varied according to the weight of the object being thrown away. While I had great power because I would lift the heaviest objects quickly, other people took much longer to lift objects which were similar in weight. One of the heavier objects that we found was a skeleton of a fairly large dog. Because some players filled their bags with more trash, they did more work than the other players and parents. This was such a typical activity that I didn't initially think physics was involved.