Join the 2009 Coastal Cleanup!
Each year, the Ocean Conservancy sponsors a worldwide Coastal Cleanup. In 2008, over seven million tons of trash were collected at sites throughout the world. OC volunteers do much more than just collect the trash - they analyze it. Here's what they learned by combing through the trash (ahem... OUR trash) that washed ashore in 2008:
443 animals were found trapped by marine debris (aka trash!) Of those, only 268 were ALIVE and able to be released.
11.4 MILLION ITEMS were collected, which together equaled the weight of 18 blue whales.
Trash impacts wildlife, including sea animals.
The EPA reports more than 50% of trash found in the ocean starts out on land. Volunteers collected 1,362,741 cigarette butts in the United States; 19,504 fishing nets in the United Kingdom; and 11,077 diapers in the Philippines.
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