International Coastal Cleanup 2008
-Volunteers traversed 17,000 miles of coastline and collected 11,439,086 million pieces of trash, from cigarette butts to grocery bags to fast-food wrappers.
-This is equivalent to more than 400 pounds of debris for every mile of beach cleaned.
-Via boats, 1,236 people collected 38,224 pounds of debris that could not be reached from land, and 10,600 divers (organized by the Project AWARE Foundation), dove below the water’s surface to haul out 219,528 pounds.
-A total of 6,485 sites, spanning beaches in South Korea to rivers and waterways in Kansas, were cleaned.
Stats: Ocean Conservancy
