1,696 Cigarette Butts Cleaned Off the Beach
The Tobacco Prevention & Control Coalition-Cameron & Willacy Counties Youth Group headed to South Padre Island on Saturday, October 23rd to comb the beach for litter. In total they collected 1,696 cigarette butts from two Beach Access areas!
This serves as a reminder to “Keep Your Butts Off The Beach!” Cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash with a total of more than 60 million collected worldwide in the past 30 years.