Ocean Pollution
Cigarette Butts and the Ocean
It’s a little known fact that the biggest pollutant to hit the oceans isn’t those plastic bags from your local supermarket, or oil from the Exxon Valdez or brown trout from your local sewer, it’s CIGARETTE BUTTS. If you’re a surfer who smokes, well, you should quit. But if you’re in town, and you see someone toss a cigarette our their car window, give ‘em hell. Those butts get washed into the sewage, and out into the ocean. It’s nasty. Ok, rant over.
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this summer i was so bummed to see the local crowd and tourists during peak season continually throwing butts on the beautiful beaches of the outer banks. it isn’t new info that littering sucks, its just so hard to sit back and the ignorance and apathy for the local environment by the general local and visiting public. i know not everyone on the beach contributes but enough people are screwing it up. there is more trash on the roads, on the beach and on the national seashore than i have ever seen! better wisen up, around here you get called a hippie for respecting the environment, doesn’t mean you have to be a hippie to love your mother!!! nature bats last
I hate how people treat the beach like a giant ashtray.
Hey, you guys should do an article on the Great Pacific Garbage patch. You can look it up on wikipedia and algalita.org. So much needs to be done!