September 18, 2006

• Inspiring Yet Sucktacular
  This Saturday was the 22nd Annual Coastal Cleanup Day. Although there are cleanups in every state and 80 countries worldwide, California was the originator of the concept so We Be Da Bomb. Himself and I have participated in this event but not this year�color us spuds. Here's lowdown:

  560,451 pounds of trash collected*

  36,093 volunteers*

  2,100 miles of shoreline patrolled

  750 individual sites cleared

  45 counties in California participated.

  Found: 1 toy singing gorilla wearing a sequined dress

  * Preliminary figures, based on reports from 70 percent of California's cleanup sites. They actually expect the tallies to hit roughly 50,000 volunteers and 800,000 pounds of garbage.

   

  Thus, the Inspiring yet Sucktacular appellation...and mark this: cigarette butts were by far the most common item picked up. As much as 40 percent (that's FORTY PERCENT, folks) of the trash collected was cigarette butts, a figure many volunteers found staggering. So when you think that cigarette butts are "biodegradeable," think again.

   

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