Today 40 students, parents and teachers from Pacific Beach Middle School International Baccalaureate World School collected over 2000+ cigarette butts at Tourmaline Beach in San Diego. Volunteers gathered all of the cigarette discards and over 100 lbs. of trash in less than three hours.
What a huge mess. What's scary is this was only a one day clean-up. I can't imagine how much marine debris is present following a storm.
I know how bad smoking is for human but today we saw the effect that smoking can have on marine animals. Animals eat cigarette butts that travel through our filter-free storm drains and directly into our oceans. We can make a huge difference by picking up the butts wherever we see them. Yes, it's gross but what a huge difference we can make and it won't cost us a dime, maybe just a lot of soap and water to wash our dirty hands.
Shout out to PBMS students for serving our community. I dare someone to say that teenagers don't care.
Oh, and thanks especially to Mr. Ketchum who came out to clean-up trash on his birthday! Now that's dedication to keeping our water clean.
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