It Starts With Me: Rise Above Plastics

Our Daily Ocean

Cigarette butts are the #1 littered item worldwide... my local beach-- Wrightsville Beach, NC-- is no exception. With inspiration from my friend Sara who writes The Daily Ocean blog, I've started my own daily ocean. I'll head out to WB at varying beach accesses and pick up litter for 20 minutes.

My focus? Cigarette butts.

My mission? To help create a smoke-free beach and have proper cigarette butt disposal receptacles installed on WB became a reality! WB is the first smoke-free beach in NC!

54,926 cigarette butts in 185 days

Litter weight added to The Daily Ocean Community Count:

327 lbs 3.7 oz

The Daily Ocean Cigarette Count

For the next 100 days, my friend Sara who writes The Daily Ocean blog will be counting and tallying the number of cigarette butts she finds during her 20 minute beach clean ups in Santa Monica-- a SMOKE-FREE beach.

We're comparing a smoke-free beach (Santa Monica) to a beach with no smoking ban (Wrightsville Beach). We hope to answer the question:

Do smoking bans really help the cigarette litter problem?

100 beach clean ups-- 740 cigarette butts in Santa Monica

61 beach clean ups-- 12,792 cigarette butts in Wrightsville Beach

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

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