This article really warms my heart and hits close to home for any beach-combers.
Volunteers scoured 33,000 miles of shoreline worldwide - 90 miles in Brevard County, Florida alone - and picked up more than 6 million pounds of trash and debris that were harmful to seabirds and marine mammals.
In Brevard county alone 5,188 bags of trash (about 103,000lbs!) were collected by over 2,000 “Keep Brevard Beautiful” volunteers.
“The debris ranges from the relatively harmless, although annoying and an eyesore, to items that annually result in the death of hundreds of thousands of seabirds and marine mammals caught in abandoned fishing lines and netting.
A third of the items found came from smokers. The volunteers collected and cataloged nearly 2.3 million cigarette butts, filters and cigar tips.
In all, 57 percent of the trash was related to shoreline recreational activities, 33 percent from smoking-related activities, 6.3 percent from fishing or waterway activities, 2 percent from dumping, and less than 1 percent from medical and personal hygiene activities, said the report.”
What the report DOES NOT mention is the hundreds of metal detectorists who scour Florida beaches year-round! But I wanted to take a moment and say “Thank You!” to all of those beach combers who, I know, pick up trash and clean the beaches as they search for lost treasures.
Spring is here and the beaches are packed, so good luck out there!
~ Liz ~
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