lifeguard tower just north of the Santa Monica Pier - Santa Monica, CAtrash collected for 20 minutes
1.6 pounds
625.4 pounds total
Mark Armen on left
COMMUNITY COUNT COLLECTION
Thank you to - Mark Armen of Gulpable and The Bait Tank & Jon Frank from Oceana
Day 52
Santa Monica CA
trash collected for 20 minutes
3.2 pounds
372.2 pounds total
Jon Frank & Heather who volunteered at the Oceana table for the Nautica Triathlon
Mark and Jon competed in the triathlon in Malibu this past weekend hosted by Nautica. They joined me last night for a sunset stroll on the beach just north of the Santa Monica Pier to see what we could collect from the sand.
Mark said as we were collecting, "It's all cigarette butts, and plastic bottle tops."
We did find plenty of them. I've been weighing items of trash that I find most frequently to provide some perspective of just how many cigarette butts, and plastic bottle tops equal 4.8 pounds (last night's combined total).
Read on to see the conversions.
An empty plastic water bottle weighs approx. = .51 ouncesA cigarette butt = .01 ounces
A plastic bottle top = .08 ounces
4 lbs. = 126 plastic bottles OR 6,400 cigarette butts OR 800 plastic bottle tops....
Mark is saving fish, and Sharks while cleaning up the streets and beaches with his super cool Bait Tank cigarette depository. Soon you will be able to see them along the Santa Monica pier, and next the world! Sounds funny, but the entire world does seem to have a cigarette butt liter problem that could use Mark's Bait Tanks. 
