quart of motor oil down a storm drain contaminates 250,000
gallons of water.
More oil enters the beach from urban
runoff than from tanker spills. Every eight months,
10.9 million gallons of oil run into the ocean from our
streets and driveways—that’s
equal to one Exxon Valdez spill!
During a recent summer
OC collected enough garbage from 6 miles of beach
to fill 10 garbage trucks full of trash every week, at
a cost to the taxpayers of $350,000.
cigarette butts are the number one debris item found
during beach clean-ups. They are deadly to wildlife
that eat the filters, mistaking them for food.
send more than 4.5 million bottles a day to landfills
- or 1.6 BILLION a year. State Officials estimate
that residents and businesses miss out on about $70 million
dollars a year in glass bottle refunds!
mammals and 2 million sea birds die every year after
ingesting or being caught in plastic debris.
the next 24 hours, 2.8 billion gallons of industrial
waste will be discharged into the world’s oceans.
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