Food wrappers. Plastic bottle caps. Cigarette butts – 231,735 cigarette butts, to be precise. These are just a few of the more than one million items collected by over 37,000 volunteers along the shores of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary between 2017 and 2021, according to a recent National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association report.
Food wrappers. Plastic bottle caps. Cigarette butts – 231,735 cigarette butts, to be precise. These are just a few of the more than one million items collected by over 37,000 volunteers along the shores of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary between 2017 and 2021, according to a recent National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association report.
According to a recent NOAA study, plastic fragments, cigarette butts, and wrappers comprise the majority of marine debris retrieved in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary by count at 59%.
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