Last September, more than 600,000 volunteers from all over the world participated in International Coastal Cleanup Day. According to a report released recently, they removed more than 3.5 million kilos of trash from ocean beaches, rivers and other waterways worldwide, enough to cover 170 football fields. They collected enough tires to outfit almost 6,000 cars, and enough cigarette butts to fill nearly 95,000 packs.
Talking trash
The report is called Tracking Trash: 25 Years of Action for the Ocean. It contains data and stories about the trash that volunteers collected during last years International Coastal Cleanup Day.
The annual event is organized by the advocacy group, Ocean Conservancy. Plastic bottles, bags, cigarette butts and other trash are clogging the oceans and killing marine mammals and sea turtles every year, according to Vikki Spruill, the groups president.
Earth, as we know it, is a water planet, says Spruill. If you look from outer space, you see blue before you see the land. Its all connected. The ocean is the system that actually provides the rain water that we all depend on in our life. Half of the oxygen in the next breath youre going to take comes from the oceans.
Luckily, she says, thousands of people from more than 120 countries and all 50 U.S. states care enough to volunteer every year for clean ups of the planets waterways, beaches and ocean fronts.
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