Cigarette butts, plastics top list of pollutants on California beaches

[rangerrebew]

Cigarette butts, plastics top list of pollutants on California beaches
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by: Salvador Rivera   
Posted: Jul 22, 2021 / 05:56 PM CDT   / Updated: Jul 22, 2021 / 05:56 PM CDT   

 

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — The Surfrider Foundation says it removed about 80,000 pounds of trash from California’s coastal beaches and waterways last year, and the number one item picked up by volunteers: cigarette butts.
Cigarette butts are the single item most collected by Surfrider volunteers. (Courtesy: Surfrider Beach Cleanup Report)

Per its annual Beach Cleanup Report, volunteers picked up 8,131 cigarette butts in San Diego alone. They also found tons of plastics, bottle caps, food wrappers and foam debris.

“Cleanup and individual action certainly helps, however, we will never fix this problem unless we demand that our elected officials hold corporations responsible for the constant and ever-growing stream of plastic pollution they are inundating us with,” said Mitch Silverstein, the San Diego chapter manager to the UT San Diego. “We pay the price in taxpayer-funded cleanup costs, not to mention the toll to our clean water, clean air, clean seafood and marine ecosystems in general.”

https://www.borderreport.com/news/cigarette-butts-plastics-top-list-of-pollutants-on-california-beaches/

[Hoodat]

This is what tops the list of pollutants on California beaches.

[Kamaji]

"we will never fix this problem unless we demand that our elected officials hold corporations responsible for the constant and ever-growing stream of plastic pollution they are inundating us with"

Hmmm, so it was just corporations standing around smoking those cigarettes - the ones that ended up as butts on the beach?  And it was those same corporations standing around and popping the bottle caps and dropping the food wrappers?

What a f**king idiot.  Why don't you try holding your fellow Californians responsible?  After all, they're the ones who chose to drop their "goodies" in the sand rather than carrying them over to a trash receptacle.

[PeteS in CA]

    US citizens never litter beaches?    

This is not an Immigration story!

[SZonian]

"we will never fix this problem unless we demand that our elected officials hold corporations responsible for the constant and ever-growing stream of plastic pollution they are inundating us with"

Hmmm, so it was just corporations standing around smoking those cigarettes - the ones that ended up as butts on the beach?  And it was those same corporations standing around and popping the bottle caps and dropping the food wrappers?

What a f**king idiot.  Why don't you try holding your fellow Californians responsible?  After all, they're the ones who chose to drop their "goodies" in the sand rather than carrying them over to a trash receptacle.

Nah, this is SOP for CA...blame the corporation, the ones with deep pockets.  Then pass legislation taxing or adding fees to the purchase of a product in the name of "preventing pollution" or "public health"...can't be holding individuals responsible for their actions now.