Tracking Trash 25 Years of Action For The Ocean

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Contents
Introduction from the President and CEO ....................................................................................... 2 A Message from Jack Johnson ......................................................................................................... 3 25 Years of Impacts: The Power of Policy .........................................................................................4 25 Years of Impacts: Product Innovation .........................................................................................8 25 Years of Impacts: New Organizations and Partnerships ........................................................... 10 25 Years of Impacts: Coordinators ................................................................................................. 12 25 Years of Impacts: Partners ....................................................................................................... 16 25 Years of Impacts: Looking to the Future ...................................................................................20 25 Years of Impacts: History and Data ........................................................................................... 22 Data to Tell Us What, Whereand How to Prevent ...................................... 24 International Coastal Cleanup 25-Year Data Summary .................................. 25 2010 International Coastal Cleanup Map ...................................................... 30 2010 International Coastal Cleanup Data ...................................................... 32 From the Texas Coast to the North Pacific Gyre ............................................ 36 2010 Coordinators and Sponsors ...................................................................................................40 The Ocean Trash Index ..................................................................................................................48 Acknowledgments and Photo Credits ............................................................................................80
25 Years Of New POlICIes, ParTNershIPs, PrOduCT INNOvaTION, aNd daTa fOr Trash free seas
Over the past 25 years, Ocean Conservancys International Coastal Cleanup has become the worlds largest volunteer effort for ocean health. Nearly nine million volunteers from 152 countries and locations have cleaned 145 million pounds of trash from the shores of lakes, streams, rivers, and the ocean on just one day each year. They have recorded every item found, giving us a clear picture of the manufactured items impacting the health of humans, wildlife, and economies. As this report demonstrates, the body of data from the International Coastal Cleanup has inspired action to rid the ocean of harmful trash. Cleanups alone, while powerful tools for gathering data and raising awareness, cannot solve the problem. Individuals, governments, nongovernmental organizations, and corporations are stepping up to prevent dangerous items from reaching the water in the first place.
Ocean Conservancy
Ocean Conservancy promotes healthy and diverse ecosystems and opposes practices that threaten ocean life and human well-being. Through research, education, and science-based advocacy, Ocean Conservancy informs, inspires, and empowers people to speak and act on behalf of the ocean. In all its work, Ocean Conservancy strives to be the worlds foremost advocate for the ocean.
The International Coastal Cleanup

In partnership with volunteer organizations and individuals across the globe, Ocean Conservancys International Coastal Cleanup engages people to remove trash from the worlds beaches and waterways, to identify the sources of debris, and to change the behaviors that cause marine debris in the first place.
Working with a wide cross-section of volunteers has demonstrated that when a group of concerned people comes together to accomplish a major goal, the task becomes very small.
hilberto b. riverol, belize coordinator (the scout association of belize)
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introduction from the president and ceo
a message from jack johnson
trash Free seas

the potential to become an even stronger alliance to bring real change to the ocean. Volunteers dont just clean up; they tally every item they find during the annual event. The 166 million pieces of trash recorded over the last 25 years have given us an invaluable snapshot of ocean trash, from Argentina to Vietnam. The data focus our attention on where we can best work together to reduce, remove, and reinvent. They have guided the decisions of corporations and governments, and built awareness in countries around the world. The International Coastal Cleanup has grown into a remarkable international alliance of individuals, nonprofits, corporations, and governments. We are different in so many ways; but what unites us is the determination that our children should enjoy an ocean brimming with wildlife, not teeming with trash. We must continue to mobilize Cleanups for our beaches, ocean, and waterways. But to truly solve this problem, we must prevent trash from reaching the water in the first placeby working together to pioneer new and lasting solutions. Last September, Ocean Conservancy and the Coca-Cola Company hosted a Marine Debris Summit in Washington, DC, where top thinkers from science, industry, government, and nongovernmental organizations shared knowledge and innovative approaches. This spring, well join the Fifth International Marine Debris Conference in Hawaii, where the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United Nations Environment Programme will bring together many other like-minded participants. With support from NOAA, Ocean Conservancy is also launching an online campaign to build an even stronger collaboration around the issue of ocean trash. Well help facilitate progress at the global, national, state, and local levels, sharing success stories from one corner of the world that can be replicated elsewhere. Well support more and better science, and well translate that science so it is easily accessible to all, through avenues like our new website. Through the Clinton Global Initiative, well seek to engage industry even more deeply in our shared work to pioneer lasting solutions. In the coming months, well bring these exciting pieces together under a new umbrella: Were calling it the Trash Free Seas Alliance. And how about you? We invite you to join us. Tell us what youll be doing for our ocean in the coming year. Visit www.oceanconservancy. org/trashfreeseas and learn about one month, one minute, one thingsteps you can take to contribute to our shared vision of an ocean free of trash. For 25 years, our alliance has made amazing advances for the health of our ocean. But now we must redouble our efforts. Together, we must use the next 25 years to secure a more enduring goal: a future in which the concentration of trash in our ocean has been consigned to the dustbin of history. For a sea change,
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and countless more around the world, in association with other great organizations both big and small, are cleaning up our oceans one piece of trash at a time. But we cant rely on these wonderful groups to do all of the work. The solutions are not only about reacting to the problem. We need prevention. Great strides are being made with legislation including bans against single-use plastics and other pollutants that riddle our waterways. I encourage you to stay educated on these issues and to use your voice to effect policy change. But your daily actions have the greatest impact to create a cleaner future for our oceans: simple things such as carrying your own reusable bag and water bottle, buying products with less packaging, and consuming less in general. At our shows, we invited fans to bring reusable water bottles, and we provided water stations with filtered tap water. Whenever we eliminate single-use items in our lives, we cut back on the trash filling the ocean and waterways. The response has been great. On our US tour this past summer, over 55,000 plastic bottles of water were displaced as the result of our All At Once water stations, and more than 6,000 fans took the Filter For Action pledge to make the switch from bottled water to reusable water bottles. We also offered recycling and composting options wherever we could on tour, to reduce the amount of trash headed for the landfill. Our label, Brushfire records, uses Forest Stewardship Council-certified recycled paper for all music and movie releases. The company donates at least one percent of every albums income to environmental nonprofit groups. We feel it is important to try to make the industry we are a part of less wasteful and more responsible. It is important for everyone to be inspired to make positive changes, both at home and in the workplace. As a global community that shares one ocean, we are getting there. Ive been amazed by the outpouring of response to the greening measures at our shows and online to our All At Once campaign [www.allatonce.org]. Your actions, your voices, your choices all have a huge impact. My wife Kim and I are committed to inspiring change in our own community through the Kokua Hawaii Foundation and around the world through the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation. At home, we watch our childrens respect for the ocean grow every day. It is for them that we are personally committed to minimizing our ecological footprint. Wherever you live, you can make a positive impact, too. And I hope youll start today. Because an individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change. Together, we can clean up our oceanfor our children, and their children. Aloha,
ver the past quarter of a century, Ocean Conservancy has demonstrated a deep commitment to ridding our coasts and waterways of harmful trash and protecting and promoting ocean health. A critical part of our effort has been our leadership of the International Coastal Cleanup, the worlds largest volunteer effort for the ocean. In this report, youll see examples of the changes we have inspired and helped to bring about, from stronger local ordinances, to groundbreaking global agreements, to changes in corporate practices.
any of us have a strong personal tie to the ocean. For me, that connection came from my father, who shared his passion for the sea, especially through his love of sailing and surfing. My album and 2010 concert tour, both called To The Sea, honored these relationships, father and son, human and sea. We should all cherishand care forour ocean. As a surfer growing up on the North Shore of Oahu, I gained a profound respect for the ocean at a young age. As a musician and surf filmmaker lucky enough to travel the world, I have connected with many people along many coastlines. I just returned home from a world tour. In Perth, Australia, I had the pleasure of working side-by-side with volunteers from Tangaroa Blue at a local beach cleanup. These people
Through the Cleanup, weve inspired millions of volunteers in more than 150 countries and locations to be part of a global movement one that has made the worlds ocean and inland waterways cleaner, safer, and more prosperous. Here, youll learn about the remarkable people at the heart of the Cleanup, from our volunteers to our partners, and youll see why our collective commitment has
vikki spruill president and ceo, ocean conservancy
jack johnson musician, surfer, environmentalist
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the power oF poliCy

The body of data collected over 25 years by International Coastal Cleanup volunteers has helped inform lawmakers. In 1987 Ocean Conservancy published one of the first studies to identify plastics as a significant threat in the ocean, Plastics in the Ocean: More than a Litter Problem. Data cited in that report helped illustrate the problem for the US Congress, which soon enforced restrictions against dumping plastic trash items at sea by adopting Annex V of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, known as MARPOL 73/78 Annex V. The Cleanup data have been cited in numerous reports, including a 2009 United Nations Environment Programme/Ocean Conservancy publication Marine Litter: A Global Challenge. Cleanup data informed passage of the 2006 Marine Debris Research, Reduction, and Prevention Act, as well as Californias state marine debris action plan.
Policies to Keep Trash Out of the Ocean
The International Coastal Cleanup has helped inform and inspire policies to prevent ocean trash, including: US adoption of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78 Annex V) California Marine Debris Action Plan Municipal laws against smoking-related litter Laws prohibiting mass balloon releases Laws encouraging reusable bags
1,248,892
25 years worth of balloons
Balloons: after the Partys Over

Balloons, so light and buoyant, can travel many miles in the air and in the water. Initially festive, these brightly-colored symbols of celebration unfortunately pose dangers long after the special occasion has passed. Their strings and ribbons entangle wildlife. Marine animals like endangered sea turtles that mistake balloons for food can choke or develop often-fatal digestive problems. In 1990, Cleanup volunteers picked up 30 pounds of balloons on the Virginia portion of Assateague Island, and analysts identified 52 separate sources in six states. (Balloons are often imprinted with the name of a business or event.) Ocean Conservancy presented the dataand the balloonsto the Virginia General Assembly, and in 1991 the state legislature passed a law prohibiting mass balloon releases; other states followed.
7,825,319
25 years worth of plastic bags
The ubiquitous Bag

Bags, including single-use, plastic shopping bags, are one of the top items found by Cleanup volunteers, who pick them up by the tens of thousands. Chances are, youll see one in your neighborhood on any given day, blowing on the wind toward the storm drain or stream that could carry it to the ocean where it could threaten wildlife. From San Francisco, California, to Ireland and Italy, a movement toward reusable bags is growing: In Washington, DC, the Skip the Bag, Save the River campaign let residents know about the new five-cent bag fee on single-use paper and plastic shopping bags. In January 2010, use dropped to 3 million, compared to a monthly average of 22.5 million in 2009. Money collected for bags goes to the Anacostia River Cleanup Fund. In China, the worlds top consumer of disposable shopping bags, a 2008 law made it illegal for stores to give away plastic bags. Owners could sell them at any price higher than the initial cost. One study showed that consumers who used an average of 21 new bags a week dropped their use by half and began to reuse the disposable bags they did acquire. A ten-cent fee for plastic bags in many parts of Californias Los Angeles County is projected to reduce use by inspiring 1.1 million consumers to choose reusable versions. When Ireland launched a shopping-bag levy in 2002, bag use fell by 90 percent. In 2007, San Francisco became the first US city to ban single-use shopping bags. On January 1, 2011, Italy became the first country to ban plastic single-use shopping bags nationwide.
Getting Butts Off the Beach

Unfortunately, as it is at most shorelines around the world, the cigarette butt is Chicagos number-one Cleanup item. Because of the Alliances longstanding work on the Cleanup, and the subsequent creation of the Adopt-a-Beach program, volunteers in Muskegon, Michigan, led a successful campaign (using Cleanup and Adopt-aBeach data) to ban smoking on beaches county-wide. Following that success, in late 2008 the Chicago Park District enacted a change in its beach-use policy that prohibited smoking and discarding of smoking paraphernalia on all of Chicagos beaches.
frances canonizado, illinois and indiana coordinator (alliance for the great lakes)
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25 years worth of cigarette butts/filters
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all partners agree:
we need trash Free seas
emocratic Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, sponsor of the Marine Debris research, Prevention, and reduction Act, made the following remarks on September 25, 2010, on the 25th anniversary of the International Coastal Cleanup: Today we celebrate and commend Ocean Conservancy for its dedication to raising awareness about the growing problem of marine debris over the past 25 years. In many ways, the worlds marine debris converges on Hawaii. Ocean currents gather and deposit debris from across the Pacific onto our shores. Endangered animals like the Hawaiian monk seal and humpback whale can become entangled, injured, or killed by derelict fishing nets and other items. The International Coastal Cleanup is a first step to finding solutions. By understanding sources of marine debris, we can work together to solve this problem.
I was proud to sponsor the introduction of the Marine Debris research, Prevention, and reduction Act, which was signed into law in 2006. The Act established marine debris programs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the US Coast Guard. I hope that I will have the opportunity to play a similar role in the reauthorization of the act, and I am delighted that the Fifth International Marine Debris Conference will be held in my home state of Hawaii in March of 2011. All ocean and marine initiatives ultimately depend on the citizens who comprise our communities. They must understand the importance of preserving and protecting our oceans, and the International Coastal Cleanup continues to advance that goal.
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epublican Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, who represents a state with more than 5,000 miles of coastline, actively seeks to protect not only the coastline, but also local communities by supporting solutions to trash in the ocean: From lost longlines ghost fishing their way through the water column to degraded plastic detritus fields that we measure by comparing their scope to the land area of entire states, marine debris is a scourge upon our worlds oceans. Enactment of the Marine Debris research, Prevention, and reduction Act in 2006 enabled NOAA and its partners to take action to clean up our waters and coastlines and to carry out fundamental research to help determine the true extent of the harm marine debris can inflict on our ecosystems and on human health. As ranking Member on the Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere,
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Fisheries, and Coast Guard, I will work with my colleagues in Congress in the coming years to reauthorize and strengthen the act to continue combatting this problem.
Democratic Senator
daniel K. Inouye
hawaii
Olympia snowe
maine
heres what International Coastal Cleanup Coordinators have to report about policy where they live:
One of the glaring gaps we noticed when we were developing the California Marine Debris Implementation Strategy is the lack of geographically broad, scientific data on the scope of the marine debris challenge. The International Coastal Cleanup data helped us fill an enormous need by showing trends in accumulation over time, allowing us to design management measures that address the most prevalent forms of debris as well as those that cause the most damage once they enter the marine environment. Future data will allow the state of California to evaluate the effectiveness of these measures over time, as our Coastal Cleanup volunteers hopefully find less and less of the debris that we have tried to address. We would simply not be able to develop effective solutions to the problem if not for the power of this volunteer effort.
eben schwartz, california coordinator (california coastal commission)
We celebrated the first anniversary of a plastic bag levy that Ecovision has been lobbying for since 1999 on World Ocean Day this year. The Hong Kong Secretary for the Environment, Mr. Edward Yau, said he was delighted that the levy scheme on plastic shopping bags had successfully transformed the publics shopping habits and they were using far fewer plastic shopping bags since the implementation of the scheme.The indiscriminate use of plastic shopping bags had always been one of the major waste management problems in Hong Kong, and we used to collect thousands and thousands off Hong Kongs beaches. This year, we found practically none.
lisa christensen, hong kong coordinator (ecovision asia)
We do like to hope that our efforts to educate Canadians about the effects of shoreline litter have influenced some important decision making throughout Canada. Smoking is now banned in Vancouver parks/beaches; many grocery store chains and retail stores charge for (or no longer offer) plastic bags; and some towns have eliminated bottled water from public events and put forth emphasis on tap water.
jill dwyer, canada coordinator (great canadian shoreline cleanup, a program of the vancouver aquarium)
When a city council member introduced a bill into the Baltimore City Council to require deposits on beverage bottles, I relied on the debris data to help support the bill by showing that over 11,000 plastic bottles were collected in one day during Marylands International Coastal Cleanup.
geri schlenoff, maryland coordinator
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schools and groups recycling six-pack holders
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reinvent: new ideas reduce ocean trash
produCt innoVation
Over the past 25 years, items reported by Cleanup volunteers have helped inspire industry to make changes to protect the ocean. Here are a few innovations that have made a difference:
Innovating to Protect wildlife

When Cleanup volunteers reported encountering marine animals entangled in six-pack holders, leading manufacturer ITW Hi-Cone decided to make a safer product. The company created a new, photodegradable plastic in 1988. Within weeks of exposure to sunlight, the material breaks down and breaks apart with the force of waves, windor an entangled animals movements. (The process takes three to four weeks in summer and three to four months in winter.) The company also came up with a design that enabled six-pack rings to split in half easily, reducing threats to wildlife like seals that might come into contact with them.
salt Makers solution

In 1990, Cleanup data analysts noted that many volunteers in the Gulf of Mexico reported finding blue plastic bags of Mortons Ship n Shore salt, used by commercial shrimpers to keep their catch fresh. Morton wasnt responsible for the improper disposal of its packaging, yet they took action when the Cleanup data highlighted the problem. First, the company encouraged people to take advantage of the option to purchase the salt in paper bags that degrade relatively quickly in the water, rather than the long-lasting plastic package. And Morton took the additional step of adding messages reminding shrimpers to take care: Dont be a Litter Boat and Stow It, Dont Throw It.
Better Bottles fishing line: reeling It Back In

When Cleanup volunteers find entangled wildlife, fishing line is the number-one culprit. Creatures like birds and dolphins entangled in fishing line can have trouble moving, breeding, and feedingand they can even drown. Line also jams boat propellers, causing expensive repairs and delays. Municipal recycling plants are simply not equipped to handle certain plastic items, including fishing line. So Berkley, a leading supplier of fishing tackle, gives fishermen and others a solution. Stores and marinas collect the line in recycling bins and send it to Berkley in bulk; individuals can also mail what theyve collected directly to Berkley Recycling. Since 1990, the Berkley Conservation Institute has recycled more than 9 million miles worth of fishing line, enough to fill two reels for every angler in America. In 2009, the Coca-Cola Company launched the first-ever 100 percent recyclable PET plastic beverage bottle made partially from plants. PlantBottle packaging is made with up to 30 percent plant-based materials by using an innovative process that turns sugar cane and molasses into a key component of PET, which reduces its carbon impact and minimizes dependency on nonrenewable materials. Over 2.5 billion PlantBottle packages were introduced to nine markets by the end of 2010. The Coca-Cola Company, a global partner of the International Coastal Cleanup, is exploring the use of other plant materials for future generations of bottles. The companys ultimate goal is a carbon-neutral, 100 percent renewable, responsibly sourced and recyclable bottle. More recycling means fewer bottles in the water.
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miles of fishing line recycled
plantbottles produced in 2010
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new organizations
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new partnerships
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Coordinators talk about some of the other partnerships and organizations that have come about:
What started 17 years ago as a small group of vancouver Aquarium employees cleaning up a local beach and submitting their data to the International Coastal Cleanup has grown into the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, with tens of thousands of participants from every province and territory across Canada.
jill dwyer, canada coordinator (great canadian shoreline cleanup, a program of the vancouver aquarium)
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Last year I established my own organization, Our Sea of East Asia Network (OSEAN), a nonprofit organization focusing on only marine debris. This year, OSEAN and JEAN (Japan Environmental Action Network) have shared a vision in which people in East Asia could act together as one community in protecting our precious marine ecosystems. We believe that NGOs in the East Asian countries have an important role in sharing experiences and acting together to address the marine debris issue in the region from the bottom up.
sun wook hong, korea coordinator (our sea of east asia network)
united against Ocean Trash

partnerships and organizations inspired by the International Coastal Cleanup include: The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, a program of the Vancouver Aquarium
The Cleanup work has strengthened a partnership between the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) and the Urban Harbors Institute (UHI) at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. For the past several years, CZM has contracted with UHI to coordinate the COASTSWEEP program, which is Massachusetts marine debris removal program. COASTSWEEP begins in September and lasts through the end of October. The annual kickoff for COASTSWEEP coincides with the Cleanup, and all data from the COASTSWEEP program are submitted to the Cleanup.
kristin uiterwyk, massachusetts coordinator (urban harbors instituteuniversity of massachusetts)
Our Cleanup work has led to the creation of the Alliance for the Great Lakes Adopt-aBeach program, which enables volunteers to visit their beaches to remove debris and track what they find year-round.
The Chennai branch of the Indian Maritime Foundation was inaugurated in 2009 to spread activities along the Tamilnadu and Pondicherry coasts (1,000 kilometers total) of which 207 were covered in the 2010 Cleanup. The aim is to cover the entire coast within the next five years.
admiral k.r. srinivasan, india-chenai coordinator (indian maritime foundation)
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The Cleanup has led me to form the Dominica Youth Environment Organisation, Inc., in 1995. Our mandate is to be the leading youth environment and development network in Dominica responsible for creating an appropriate space for young people to participate in the design, development, implementation, and promotion of new, progressive, equitable, innovative, and sustainable environmental, economic, and social development policies and programs across the wider Caribbean.
terry raymond, dominica coordinator (dominica youth environment organisation)
Catalyst for Change
Scuba Dogs Society (Puerto Rico) Urban Harbors Institute-University of Massachusetts The Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies Our Sea of East Asia Network (OSEAN) Dominica Youth Environment Organisation, Inc. Texas General Land Office Adopt-a-Beach Program 1990 California Marine Debris Steering Committee and Action Plan
T he International Coastal Cleanup connects people and organizations across the world and inspires new entities and new partnerships that strengthen the movement to address ocean trash. After the very first Cleanup in 1986, the Texas General Land Office launched Adopt-a-Beach, a year-round effort to protect beaches, and many other locations have done the same over the past 25 years.
Since 2001, we have been using Ocean Conservancys data cards to monitor marine debris in the state. Because of our partnership with the Cleanup, we have become more motivated to clean our beaches and more effective at keeping records of the marine debris found. This has spurred growth of our program and has helped us to spread marine debris cleanups throughout the state.
patrick chandler, alaska coordinator (center for alaskan coastal studies)
We helped create the Liceo Naval Galapagos (Navy Lyceum Galapagos) in 1998, which soon became part of the Navys own prestigious school systemwe forged a partnership focused on the support and development of their environmental education programs. Nowadays the school is one of the main supporters of Ocean Conservancys International Coastal Cleanup. Other local schools have followed suit based on the educational success of it, and have joined us in the fun.
miguel mosquera, ecuador-galapagos coordinator (fundacin ecologica albatros)
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Coordinators
sea stars of the International Coastal Cleanup
For each country, location (such as territories), and US state that hosts the International Coastal Cleanup, there is one extraordinary person who works all year long to coordinate events every September and October. These remarkable individuals volunteer hundreds and hundreds of hours. Some, like Joan Hauser-Crowe of Washington, work from their homes as private citizens. Others connect with the Cleanup through their day-jobs with companies, nonprofits, or government agencies working on ocean and water quality issues (see the full list of 2010 Coordinators and their affiliations on page 40). volunteer crews. They may also find sponsors to supply proper disposal of all the trash collected at the end of the day. And, of course, Coordinators put the word out in the community inviting everyone from families, neighbors, and co-workers to scouts and church groups to join in at local rivers, lakes, streams, and beaches. They coordinate all of this with the help of Zone and Site Captains who each take responsibility for specific Cleanup sites. Ocean Conservancy supports this thriving Coordinator network by providing resources like training through online webinars and conferences along with data cards and other key materials. When the Cleanup is complete, the trash is properly disposed of, and everyone goes home, but Coordinators still have work to do. They make certain that the all-important data so carefully collected reaches Ocean Conservancy. And then they take a deep breath and start planning the next Cleanup.
Barbara Cohen
coordinator, new york american littoral society
Jasmine Bannis
coordinator, british virgin islands (bvi) bvi conservation and fisheries department
Carolina Guisande
coordinator, dominican republic
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Acquiring several thousand Facebook fans over the course of two months generally demands some level of celebrity status. Carolina Guisande, one of two Coordinators for the Dominican Republic, could easily be described as a Cleanup rock star. Through three years of work with the local organization Fundacin Vida Azul, this vibrant young woman has helped catapult the tiny Dominican Republic into the top ten participating countries. Im a dreamer, she says, but Im not just a dreamerIm making things happen. Through Vida Azuls Facebook page, she and other volunteers who manage it have connected with thousands of people passionate about keeping the Dominican Republic clean. Carolina values social media for the ability to bring groups togetherespecially people of different income levels who were in separate school systems and may never have found each other offline. These volunteers are now able to share pictures, comments, and even songs about the Cleanup. Most importantly, people use Facebook to spread the word, and its working; this year, the Dominican Republic turned out over 27,000 volunteers, nearly tripling last years number. Carolina aspires to teach the next generation to ask themselves, If this is just going to become garbage, do I really need it? She observes, We think the world owes us something, but it is the other way around. We owe the world including the oceaneverything.
extraordinary devotion
Their responsibilities are numerous. These hard-working men and women scout out locations to be cleaned. They engage local sponsors who provide everything from coffee and water to T-shirts and work gloves for
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In 2006, we coordinated the Cleanup in three provinces of Vietnams central coast. We helped train local officials and community members on how to collect debris, organize waste efficiently, create awareness activities, and hold events. And 1,000 volunteers removed over 40,000 items of trash.
nguyen thi thu trang, vietnam coordinator (centre for marinelife conservation and community development)
After 25 years with the International Coastal Cleanup, one thing is for sure: Barbara Cohen has seen a lot of trash. And yet what she remembers most is not the debris she has collected from shorelines, but the people who have worked beside her. There is excitement, she says, in developing relationships with strangers full of ideas and a strong desire to make this a cleaner world. Barbara first started cleaning beaches in 1986 after becoming fed up with trash on the shores of Jamaica Bay. That year, there were a hundred volunteers on four sites in New York. In 2010, under her leadership, 9,235 volunteers came out to 276 different sites around the state. Barbara, an educator, says, This is what the Cleanup is really about: educating our citizenry to be aware of the part they can play in making our world cleaner, healthier, and more beautiful. In 2004, Parade Magazine featured this extraordinary volunteer; in 2002, Newsday named her an Everyday Hero. And, in perhaps the biggest testament to her impact, she was honored by Robert Kennedy, Jr., and presented with the Environmental Quality award from the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1997. After 25 years of leaving parts of her life on hold, Barbara is retiring from her Coordinator position. Looking back on the relationships she and her husband of 59 years have formed with other volunteers, she observes, How fortunate I am to have had this experience in my lifetime!
Jasmine Bannis, now in her tenth year with the International Coastal Cleanup, says she has never felt more connected to the world around her. From meeting Cleanup volunteers to sharing success stories with Coordinators from other hemispheres, Jasmine says, The Cleanup is like a family. Even though we have diverse personalities and cultures, we all come together to share the same goal. Jasmines involvement started in 2000, and she immediately knew she had found a special calling: I have grown to love the Cleanup and I am determined to be the best in whatever my hands find to do. A poet, Jasmine points out that her work with the Cleanup is not so different from her creative drive: both express her passion for the environment and her optimism for the future. She explains, Without hope, there is no life. You cant live in an area without life. She takes active steps to make sure her optimism leads to real change in the environment. To maintain healthy beaches year-round, she organizes groups to take responsibility for specific areas around the island. We may not know what the future holds for our environment, she notes, but we do know what we can doeducate, and continue to fight for a clean world.
For trash Free seas
leaders
By the end of the event I saw the headphones put away and students interacting and laughing with the adults. And, perhaps best of all, I saw a real understanding in them about the problem of marine debris and an interest in being part of the solution.
marcia taylor, st. croix, usvi coordinator (university of the virgin islands)
A few years ago, I had a nine-year-old who gave up his birthday party to be able to volunteer for the Cleanup. He believed so much in a clean environment and felt so good taking part that the next year he asked his friends to donate to Ocean Conservancy instead of buying birthday presents for him!
leni herr, pennsylvania coordinator (verizon telecompioneers)
The f irst International Coastal Cleanup I took part inas a volunteer in 1994hooked me! I loved the data collection. It makes our impact last beyond the day of the Cleanup and helps us understand more about the hand behind the litter.
katie register, virginia coordinator (clean virginia waterways)
On September 11, 2001, we had American flags at all 30 zones, and the turnout was one of the largest we ever experienced. We had the support of all corporate sponsors, state agencies, zone captains, and volunteers. It was one of those things that gave people a positive opportunity to express themselves during this time of uncertainty and turmoil for our country.
spencer ryan, alabama (alabama pals)
I think that my most meaningful experience was when I saw the volunteers arriving at the beach the second year that I organized the Cleanup, as we went from a small group of 114 in 2004 to more than 1,000 in 2005.
alejandra lopez de roman, mexico (club regatas corona, a.c.)
It is so moving to see entire families at the end of the Cleanup, proud of their hard work and happy to have shared time together in service.
liza gonzalez, nicaragua (paso pacifico)
In 2008 there was something in the aira spirit of service, of public engagement, a desire to give back and our volunteer numbers were outstanding. It was great to see so many come out and care for the Great Lakes.
We thoroughly enjoyed the collaborations between jet skiers, kayakers, divers, and beach lovers. It was great to know people with different interests have one thing in common: the protection of our fragile environment.
alan w.k. tan, brunei coordinator (beach bunch)
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sponsors explain their Commitment to the Cleanup
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partners
True-Blue Partners, in every sense
Partners make the work possible; they build the foundation that supports the incredible worldwide volunteer network. These generous companies, government agencies, and organizations not only provide essential funding, but also share their expertise with Ocean Conservancy to help carry the worldwide movement forward. They act on solutions and help get volunteers out in their communities.
The CoCA-ColA CoMpAny We are proud to be a longstanding partner with Ocean Conservancy, working toward sustainable solutions to the marine debris issue through the International Coastal Cleanup and other programs. BAnK of AMerICA Bank of America is proud to partner with Ocean Conservancy to restore the vitality of our ocean and waterways. This years International Coastal Cleanup provided a tangible way to fight for a thriving ocean and address climate change for our associates, who volunteer in Cleanups around the world. AlTrIA groUp, InC. Altria Group, Inc., is committed to reducing the environmental impact of its businesses. We are proud to support Ocean Conservancys efforts through grants and volunteer activities that help reduce the amount of litter in waterways.
Booz Allen hAMIlTon Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and technology consulting firm, is committed to delivering results that endure and is proud to partner with Ocean Conservancy to help protect the ocean for future generations. The doW CheMICAl CoMpAny Dow is proud to have sponsored the Cleanup efforts for the last 25 years. We value our relationship with Ocean Conservancy and their dedication in developing global solutions and public education needed to change the behaviors that cause marine debris and litter. noAA The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Debris Program is proud to participate in and partner with Ocean Conservancy on this Cleanup. By working together we can all make a difference in solving the problem of marine debris.
The Solo CUp CoMpAny Proper disposal of single-use products is critical to the health of our oceans and waterways. Our partnership with Ocean Conservancy enables Solo employees to make a difference and helps us educate the public about options and proper disposal of single-use products. BrUnSWICK pUBlIC foUndATIon Brunswick Foundation supports Ocean Conservancy in encouraging environmentally responsible behavior on the water. With the boaters we serve, we seek to maintain and protect our invaluable ocean and waterways. US enVIronMenTAl proTeCTIon AgenCy For 25 years, the Environmental Protection Agency has been proud to sponsor the Cleanup, allowing volunteers to witness how trash from streets travels to our waterways.
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Inspiring employees to live Blue: employee activation

Many partners make a special effort to educate their employees about the impacts of ocean trash and how to change their own behaviors to help stop it. Companies invite staff to come out and learn together through the hands-on experience of the Cleanup, often creating special T-shirts for their teams and encouraging them to bring along family members as well as friends from the local community. As part of its $20 billion, ten-year initiative to address climate change, Bank of America has supported the International Coastal Cleanup for the past several years, inspiring thousands of associates to join in Cleanup events across the United States and around the world. In 2010 alone, the bank sponsored a dozen events, from Seattle and San Diego to Hong Kong and Brazil. As a global company committed to addressing climate
change, Bank of Americas partnership with Ocean Conservancy is an extremely effective way for us to combine our philanthropic giving with associate volunteer opportunities. The Coca-Cola Company activated a global employee engagement campaign around this years Cleanup. They called it Pick it up, Clean it Up, Sea Change! and it involved the use of office signage, social media, and more to remind employees why the sea is worth protecting. In its Atlanta headquarters, huge photographs gave people the feeling they were underwater with whales and other sea creatures. Employees and visitors walked into the lobby and were amazed to be surrounded by the beauty of the ocean, said April Crow, Global Manager of Sustainable Packaging at The CocaCola Company. Perhaps equally amazing was the 26,000 plus Coca-Cola employees, friends, and family members in 34 countries who participated in the 25th anniversary International Coastal Cleanup. We are very proud of our association with this important movement to protect the ocean and the creatures that call it home. Coca-Cola volunteers gave more than 200,000 hours to clean beaches and record data, from Azerbaijan to Venezuela. The largest turnout was in Brazil, where Coca-Cola engaged more than 9,000 volunteers in Cleanup activities.
J ust as very special global partners support the International Coastal Cleanup as a whole, partners on the local level provide funding, materials, and all kinds of assistance when it comes to individual events.
We are proud to support and work alongside ocean Conservancy, helping to remove debris and create awareness that healthy and cleaner oceans and waterways will be better positioned to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
bank of america
speCial thanks
2010 international coastal
cleanup sponsoring partners lead sponsoring partner the coca-cola company blue planet partners bank of america national oceanic and atmospheric administration living waters partners altria group, inc . booz allen hamilton healthy bay partners the solo cup company
The International Coastal Cleanup benefits enormously from relationships with partners so deeply committed to creating solutions to ocean trash, and we thank them.
rivers and streams partners itw national marine sanctuary foundation lakes and marshes partners covanta energy o-i unfi us environmental protection agency the walt disney company
outreach partners earth day network keep america beautiful project aware foundation united nations environment programme
the dow chemical company
brunswick public foundation
UnITed KIngdoM
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25-year partners
At the same time, Ocean Conservancy along with EPA, and other federal agencies embarked on the start of a multi-decade partnership to educate Congress and the public about marine debris; remove marine debris from the environment; and prevent marine debris from entering the environment. EPA continues to participate in Cleanup events including workshops and conferences, and has helped fund the programs expansion. EPA complements Ocean Conservancys work with a comprehensive watershed approach to protect our ocean and beaches from landbased marine debris. Most recently, Ocean Conservancy has partnered with EPAs new Urban Waters Initiative, which promotes the protection and restoration of urban waters by engaging communities in cleanup and demonstration activities that foster an increased community connection. These activities help residents understand the value of clean waterways and encourage stewardship. In 2010, EPA and Ocean Conservancy hosted Urban Waters/International Coastal Cleanup events in Washington, DC, and in Bronx, New York, working closely on the successful events with many local partners. EPA is proud to have sponsored the International Coastal Cleanup for the past 25 years, says Peter S. Silva, EPAs Assistant Administrator for Water. The Cleanup is a great way to raise public awareness, engage citizens in stewardship, and make a difference in the environment. Community members can see immediate results as they remove litter and debris from their local waters and watersheds. The extraordinary efforts of this one-day event have both a local and global effect on waterways and beaches around the world.
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here are just a few acknowledgments from Coordinators:
I went to Sams Club to collect my $25 gift card, and the lady gave me a check for $1,000! I got the store grantI hadnt even applied for it. I was so happy that I could buy more supplies, good signs for our Cleanups, and even some T-shirts to give to volunteers.
geri schlenoff, maryland coordinator
Of all the sponsors that I have had the pleasure to work with, Pick n Pays Anna Dewhurst makes every Cleanup a pleasure. Shes there with her team and goes that extra mile, personally handing out donated muffins and coffee.
john kieser, capetown-south africa coordinator (plastics federation of south africa)
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The us environmental Protection agency (ePa)

The International Coastal Cleanup has seen many changes since its inception in 1986, but one aspect has remained constant: a strong relationship with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Before the first official Cleanup had even taken place, EPA was growing increasingly aware of the problems caused by litter and debris in our oceans and on our coastlines. To better understand the marine debris issue, EPA launched a number of education and research efforts to help address the growing problem.
We certainly appreciate every company, organization, club, school, and individual that donates time, materials, and equipment to help make the Cleanups possible every year. Without so much generosity and commitment to community, it just wouldnt be possible to put on these great events.
linda zmudzinski, ohio coordinator (ohio lake erie commission)
On September 24th this year, the seas were really wild and the waves crashed into the Homer spit all night. Last year we had to cancel our Cleanup because we couldnt get out on the water, but this year the good people of Makos Water Taxi would not be deterred. Mako himself steered us across the bay, and we were able to get to a remote beach and conduct a truly successful event because of his dedication and sponsorship.
patrick chandler, alaska coordinator (center for alaskan coastal studies)
The dow Chemical Company

Dow joined us for the first Cleanup in 1986 in Texas and continues to be a steadfast partner, providing annual funding and also making trash bags available to Coordinators throughout the United States. The companys in-kind gift of bags, along with the distribution
of those bags, represents a significant commitment. Dow is so proud of our 25-year history working with Ocean Conservancy on this critical issue, says Kelly Polich, Dow Business Public Policy Manager for Plastics. When I go out to the Anacostia River Cleanup here in the nations capital with my daughter, my husband, fellow Dow employees, and others from our community, it really brings home the importance of finding solutions to this major pollution problemnot to mention the incredible feeling of camaraderie you get knowing you are part of a worldwide network of like-minded people.
it really brings home the importance of finding solutions to this major pollution problemnot to mention the incredible feeling of camaraderie you get knowing you are part of a worldwide network of like-minded people.
kelly polich, dow business public policy manager for plastics
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looking to the Future

C onsidering the 25-year body of Cleanup data, theres no question that a wide variety of manufactured items are causing a major ocean pollution problem. Trash is covering our beaches and accumulating in gyres in the middle of the ocean. We have a clear picture of the specific products involved and can now ramp up efforts to stop these items from ever reaching the ocean. Going forward, we need many strategies working in concert to significantly reduce the trash winding up in our ocean and waterways. One emerging trend that began in Europe in response to shrinking landf ill space is Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). Simply put, EPR extends some or all of the responsibility of manufacturers beyond the sale of a product. Instead of shipping an item without any further thought, they build into their plan both practical and financial responsibility for a given product item to include its final, proper disposal. The manufacturer covers part or all of the cost of recycling or proper disposaland makes sure it happens. EPR can be voluntary, or required by law. Beginning in 2011, Ocean Conservancy will mobilize other conservation organizations, industry leaders, and government officials to advance the conversation about EPR with respect to ocean trash. We will host summits to stimulate dialogue and support and identify solutions. We will also establish a task force of solid waste management experts to help Ocean Conservancy quantify both the baseline amount of ocean trash and how to measure programs as companies change products and help reduce inflow of new trash. Some forward-thinking manufacturing companies have put product innovation and EPRlike strategies into practice, including:
Teaching about Trash

Teachers find that the Cleanup is a great resource for teaching everything from math and biology to social responsibility. When fourth-graders in new york City participated in Cleanups at a local beach and tallied what they found on ocean Conservancys data card (see graph at right), we found out they have something to teach us, as well:
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Oliver
Birds are lovely, and die from us. When they see a lot of trash, they dont think once, they just eat it. Then are poisoned.
Jack
I dont want to sound like Im bossing people around but you guys have got to step up and get tough about this stuff.
Clara
Waves lap at the shore and horseshoe crabs swarm like bees on land and sea. The only thing that distracts you from this beautiful scene is the garbage. Toys, food wrappers, clothing, you name it!
engaging the Next Generation

It used to be said that todays young people are the future. But the truth is, they are powerful advocates now. Ocean Conservancy has partnered with EarthEcho International, a leading environmental education nonprofit, to encourage Cleanups as a service learning project for the Water Planet Challenge, an EarthEcho/Discovery web-based program for middle- and high-school students. Kids are asking their friends to donate to the Cleanup in lieu of giving them birthday or bat mitzvah gifts. And twenty-somethings like Coordinator Carolina Guisande of the Dominican Republic are stepping up to bring fresh ideas and leadership (see page 13). Kids of every age are getting actively involved around the world: preSChoolerS learn about water pollution from the Cleanup Coordinator in Ghana. eleMenTAry SChool SCIenCe STUdenTS from New York to Brazil clean up and fill out data cards with their teachers.
ITw hi-Cone
The leading manufacturer of six-pack holders has gone above and beyond in terms of reducing the environmental impact of its product. The company not only developed a new material (see page 9), but it also created the Ring Leader program to recapture and recycle the rings. More than 12,000 schools, businesses, and groups around the world have helped keep the rings out of the environment including the oceanby participating in the free Ring Leader Recycling Program (www. ringleader.com).
Nike
At the 2010 soccer World Cup in South Africa, Nike introduced new soccer jerseys for its national teams made from 100 percent recycled polyester. Nikes fabric suppliers acquired discarded plastic bottles from Japanese and Taiwanese landfill sites and then melted them down to produce new yarn that was ultimately converted to fabric for the jerseys. Up to eight bottles went into each shirt. This innovation kept 13 million plastic bottles from landfills and possibly the ocean. If the recycled bottles used to make the jerseys were laid end-to-end, they would cover more than 3,000 kilometers, which is more than the entire coastline of South Africa.
Whether they discover the Cleanup on their own, or participate in their first event because theyve been invited out by a friend or teacher or their parents employer, these young people are discovering the joyful sense of accomplishment that comes from making a beach or shoreline clean and, at the end of the day, handing in the data card that makes a permanent and incredibly useful record of their work. They go home with a vivid picture of the scope of this problem. And they are inspired to work toward prevention. They become ocean trash ambassadors in their neighborhoods, classrooms, and online communities. Thats great news for the next 25 years.
957,975
25 years worth of six-pack holders
star Power, Kid Power

Kids kicked off the 25th anniversary year of the International Coastal Cleanup with an event hosted by Ocean Conservancy and Disneys Friends for Change: Project Green. Ocean Conservancy President and CEO Vikki Spruill joined 75 enthusiastic school children in Tampa to pick up trash. Stars from Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam including the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato came out to help inspire the young volunteers to care for the ocean they love. They worked together along a one-mile stretch of beach to collect about 500 pounds of debris: 20 bags full of recyclables and 14 burlap sacks full of other trash. They found everything from ribbon to foam coolers, and even a vintage suitcase.
aliapur
979,468
25 years worth of tires
This French companys founding members include tire manufacturers Bridgestone, Continental, Dunlop, Goodyear, Kleber, Michelin, and Pirelli. Since 2003, Aliapur has been chosen by some 203 producers to collect and recover used tires equal to the amount they put on the French market. Aliapur collects and shreds the tires for recycling and energy production.
during the 2010 Cleanup, I came across a very dirty fishing village right on the Chennai coast. My dedicated volunteers from the national Cadet Corps (school children ages 12-15) not only showed the fisherfolk the way to clean up the debris but were also successful in enlisting the children of that village to do a fast Cleanup.
admiral k.r. srinivasan, india-chennai coordinator (indian maritime foundation)
9,549,156
25 years worth of plastic beverage bottles
hIgh SChool STUdenTS help with underwater Cleanups in St. Croix. College STUdenTS in Vietnam raised their own travel funds to travel to Cleanup sites and pitch in.
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history and data

Trash and other manufactured items in the ocean represent a serious pollution problem. The ocean is the planets life support system, providing much of the food, water, and oxygen we need to survive. It also drives our climate. Things like cigarette butts, bottles, and chemical drums arent just an eyesore; they threaten the health of our ocean as a whole, along with that of humans, wildlife and habitats, and economies.
clogging our shorelines and impacting ocean, human, and economic health.
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The volunteer Network

Throughout the year, Ocean Conservancy supports an extensive network of Coordinators, Zone Captains, and Site Captains in every participating country, location, and US state as they prepare for Cleanup events. These volunteers identify sites to be cleaned along lakes, rivers, streams, and the sea. And they recruit and organize the more than half-amillion volunteers who roll up their sleeves and get the job done on Cleanup day. (For more on volunteers, see pages 12-15.) Cleanups are not a new idea; many organizations and communities around the world engage in this important work. The distinguishing characteristics of Ocean Conservancys International Coastal Cleanup include the way we unify those local efforts into a global movement and provide the training and materials needed to collect and analyze worldwide data. Ocean Conservancys body of data catalogues the items of most concern for each site and region, and provides information to develop new policies that are good for the oceanand products that are more ocean-friendly.
heres good news: Anyone, anywhere can find ways to reduce trash in the ocean, by cleaning up as well as preventing ocean trash at the source. And every year more people are realizing that when we reduce the stresses caused by manufactured items in the water, the ocean will be more resilient in the face of other threats like climate change. Ocean Conservancy, building on the 25-year track record of the International Coastal Cleanup, is leading the way.
with huge amounts of things like plastic containers and old rope, she knew this trash posed a serious threat to wildlife and ecosystems. And she felt compelled to take action. Linda and Kathy reached out to the Texas General Land Office and other dedicated ocean-lovers, and planned what would become the first official Cleanup. They asked volunteers to go beyond picking up trash and record each item collected on a standardized data card in order to identify ways to eliminate ocean trash in the future.
data Collection
data analysis
Each year, Ocean Conservancy breaks down the data by country, location, and US state using reports generated by the Online Data Collection and Reporting Tool. The data provide a snapshot of what was removed from a certain location on one day. The long-term, global nature of collection makes the data effective for educating the public, business, industry, and governments about the sources and types of trash impacting ocean health. To assess long-term trends in the Cleanup, we have engaged Applied Marine Science, Inc., to evaluate our 25-year data set using the most appropriate statistical methods. Our goal is to identify trends in specific trash items over time and in different parts of the world so that we can understand the full extent of the problem and determine whether we are making progress toward solutions.
Person by Person, a world of difference

The worlds largest volunteer effort on behalf of ocean health burst on the scene through the efforts and passion of one woman. Word of the first event spread, and the resulting ripple effect continues around the globe today, with individuals everywhere engaged in forging solutions. Back in 1986, Linda Maraniss moved to Texas from Washington, DC, where she had been working for Ocean Conservancy (then called the Center for Environmental Education). She had been deeply impressed by the work her Ocean Conservancy colleague Kathy OHara was doing on a groundbreaking report called Plastics in the Ocean: More than a Litter Problem that would be published the next year. When Linda discovered a Texas beach covered
local action, Global Change

In a mere two hours at that first Cleanup, 2,800 volunteers picked up 124 tons of trash from 122 miles of Texas coastline, and the movement spread as other states joined the effort. In 1989, Canada and Mexico participated, and the event became the International Coastal Cleanup. From the start, the Cleanup appealed to people from all walks of life who saw that this was a hands-on way to address a major pollution problem. By working shoulder-to-shoulder with friends, neighbors, and co-workers and in spirit with people in nearly every time zone, anyone can help clean a beach for a few hours on one day and contribute to the body of data that gives us a picture of specific items
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kristen uiterwyk, massachusetts coordinator (urban harbors instituteuniversity of massachusetts)
A general observation we can make from [our regional] data is that there has been a decline in tampon applicators in Boston harbors coastal environment. This can be tied into the development of the deer Island treatment facilitywhich is a great observation to make.
For 25 years, volunteers have recorded every item found: 166,144,420 items in all. This accounting of trash picked up in just a few hours each year has raised awareness about ocean trash and informed policies to address it. Ocean Conservancy accepts data collected from Cleanups throughout September and October for inclusion in the annual marine debris report. Volunteers log each item found on the standardized data card, available in nine languages. They tally 43 items commonly found and can write in items of local concern and weird finds like suitcases and chandeliers (see page 29). Coordinators for each country, location, and state submit the data to Ocean Conservancy; an online data entry system streamlines the process and helps ensure accuracy. The data are published annually in the Ocean Trash Index, the only item-byitem, location-by-location accounting of whats trashing our ocean (see page 48).
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what, whereand how to preVent

The information volunteers collect sets the International Coastal Cleanup apart from any other beach cleanup effort. Ocean Conservancy publishes the annual data gathered during the International Coastal Cleanup in the Ocean Trash Index, an item-by-item, location-by-location accounting of marine debris picked up by volunteers on just one day. Ocean Conservancy also makes available data reports by location.
Twenty-five years of detailed information from the Cleanup paints a solid picture of the top items of concern in our ocean and waterways. That information enables us to identify where these items originate, so we can stop them at the source. Many of the items trashing our ocean are disposable products that find their way to the water through improper disposal or dumping. Others escape from waste management systems. The data show us where to focus strategies to stop ocean trash.
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25-year data summary

25 Years of entangled wildlife found
AMphIBIAnS BIrdS CorAlS/ SpongeS fISh InVerTeBrATeS MAMMAlS repTIleS ToTAl
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beverage bottles beverage cans crab/lobster/fish traps fishing hooks fishing line fishing nets bags (plastic) ribbon/ string rope 6-pack holders
3 1 1 2 9 3 13 0 4 2 2 1 41
8 2 11 76 722 153 102 91 160 63 30 31 1,449
0 0 1 0 14 1 0 0 0 0 1 17
27 15 48 54 553 249 142 37 114 52 34 16 1,341
47 17 106 10 237 207 91 29 53 21 12 13 843
13 1 3 3 46 29 33 7 71 3 5 7 221
2 0 3 6 55 30 23 2 24 5 5 6 161
100 36 151 1,636 672 404 166 426 146 88 75 4,073

SOURCE: OCEAN CONSERVANCY/INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEANUP SOURCE: OCEAN CONSERVANCY/INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEANUP
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25 Years of Cleanups
Almost nine million people have picked up some 144 million pounds of trash during 25 years of the International Coastal Cleanup, the worlds largest volunteer effort for ocean health. The weight is equal to that of 41,210 sedans. Volunteers have cleaned 291,514 miles of coastal and inland shoreline and waterways, a distance equal to two trips around earth followed by a trip to the moon.
8,763,377
people
plastic straps
291,514
miles
wire
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144,606,491
pounds Countries and loCations
B irds, fish, and other animals can become entangled in ocean trash, which prevents them from feeding, swimming, and reproducing. Entanglement also causes drowning. In addition, wildlife can mistake things like bottle caps, cigarette butts, and even cigarette lighters for food, consuming them and feeding them to their young. They may become ill from digestive blockage or starve to death because they feel artificially full and stop eating.
Top Ten Items Over 25 Years

rAnK deBrIS ITeM nUMBer of deBrIS ITeMS perCenTAge of ToTAl deBrIS ITeMS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
cigarettes/cigarette filters food wrappers/containers caps, lids cups, plates, forks, knives, spoons beverage bottles (plastic) bags (plastic) beverage bottles (glass) beverage cans straws/stirrers rope
Top Ten ToTAl deBrIS ITeMS ToTAl deBrIS ITeMS WorldWIde
52,907,756 14,766,533 13,585,425 10,112,038 9,549,156 7,825,319 7,062,199 6,753,260 6,263,453 3,251,948 132,077,087 166,144,420
32% 9% 8% 6% 6% 5% 4% 4% 4% 2% 80% 100%
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total debris items collected worldwide
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25-Year Item Totals

deBrIS ITeMS/SoUrCeS
shoreline & recreational activities
25-Year Top Ten Participating Countries

CoUnTS deBrIS ITeMS/SoUrCeS
smoking-related activities
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rAnK CoUnTry or loCATIon
nUMBer of VolUnTeerS
paper bags plastic bags balloons beverage bottles (plastic) beverage bottles (glass) beverage cans caps, lids clothing, shoes cups, plates, forks, knives, spoons food wrappers/containers 6-pack holders pull tabs shotgun shells/wadding straws, stirrers toys
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2,257,254 7,825,319 1,248,892 9,549,156 7,062,199 6,753,260 13,585,425 2,715,113 10,112,038 14,766,533 957,975 1,624,575 301,650 6,263,453 1,459,601 86,482,443
cigarettes/cigarette filters cigarette lighters cigar tips tobacco packaging/wrappers

SUBToTAl
52,907,756 1,468,366 2,872,086 2,163,570 59,411,778
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
united states philippines canada japan venezuela brazil south africa india puerto rico panama
152 CoUnTrIeS And loCATIonS
3,618,462 2,907,608 251,141

SOURCE: OCEAN CONSERVANCY/INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEANUP SOURCE: OCEAN CONSERVANCY/INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEANUP
227,762 187,027 134,701 106,253 104,443 86,915 85,600 8,763,377
dumping activities
appliances batteries cars/car parts building materials 55-gallon drums tires

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117,356 713,014 688,612 1,875,252 182,889 979,468 4,556,591 Cigarette butts are far and away the most prevalent item found over the past quartercentury, accounting for more than three times the number of any other item. Six of the top ten items are consumer products made from plastic; much of the rope made today is synthetic, rather than more readily degradable natural fiber. Over 25 years, Cleanup volunteers have picked up enough glass and plastic bottles (16,611,355) to provide every resident of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston with a cold beverage on a hot summer day. The United States and Philippines have provided almost half of all volunteers over 25 years. 2000 was the peak participation year, with 844,967 people. The top three participating countries over the past quarter-century were the United States (3,618,462), the Philippines (2,907,608), and Canada (251,141). California, by far the most active US state, had almost one-third of all US volunteers.
medical/personal hygiene
condoms
ocean/waterway activities
632,412 863,135 349,251 599,355 2,444,153
diapers 382,811 967,491 823,522 314,322 313,997 1,340,114 945,241 1,050,825 438,361 912,419 408,347 1,298,171 3,251,948 801,886 13,249,455 syringes tampons/tampon applicators
SUBToTAl
bait containers/packaging bleach/cleaner bottles buoys/floats crab/lobster/fish traps

SOURCE: OCEAN CONSERVANCY/INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEANUP
crates fishing line fishing lures/light sticks fishing nets light bulbs/tubes oil/lube bottles pallets plastic sheeting/tarps rope strapping bands
SUBToTAl
117,356
appliances would fill 32,600 single-axle adump trucks
for a creative graphic by french cleanup volunteer nicolas verrier depicting the 25-year data, go to
www.oCeanConserVanCy.org/25years
cigarettes/cigarette filters would fill 100 olympic-size swimming pools
52.9 Million
diapers would be enough to put one on every child born in the uk last year
863,135
liza gonzalez, nicaragua coordinator (paso pacifico)
As a result of the increased awareness that comes from the Cleanup, the municipal governments have increased the number of garbage receptacles on the beaches and collect them with greater frequency.
25-Year Top Ten Participating states

rAnK US STATe nUMBer of VolUnTeerS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
california florida north carolina texas new york south carolina georgia hawaii oregon louisiana
50 STATeS And The dISTrICT of ColUMBIA
1,076,344 563,380 341,937 256,824 181,791 106,987 101,827 92,755 84,695 75,490 3,618,462
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on and under the water

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volunteers
Boaters: Cleaning hard-to-reach shores

Volunteers collect data from watercraft as well as on land and underwater. In 2010, 6,360 boaters participated, up more than 200 percent from 2009. They collected 162,498 pounds of trash along 145 miles.
divers: Going Beneath the surface

Our cast-off items, from cans to fishing line, lie unseen beneath the surface, endangering swimmers and wildlife along with important habitat like coral reefs. Back in the early days of the Cleanup, Ocean Conservancy (then the Center for Marine Conservation) joined with the scuba diving industry, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the US Coast Guard to launch the underwater component of the Cleanup. The diving community stepped up in a big way, including the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) and its Project AWARE Foundation, which still plays a major role today.
We suspected some marine life might be either camouflaged or entangled in some of the trash collected in our underwater Cleanups. We had a recovery tank on shore for any living organisms we could find. By the end of the Cleanup, we had rescued a number of baby angelfish, damselfish and sergeant majors, a small octopus, a few starfish, crabs, and a beautiful seahorse.
alberto mart, puerto rico coordinator (scuba dogs society)
weird Finds
Large amounts of fireworks debris were found at the Pittsburgh Three rivers Stadium, left over from f ireworks at baseball and football games. This was very disturbing to the volunteers who did the Cleanup, who hadnt realized how much debris was produced from fireworks.
leni herr, pennsylvania coordinator (verizon telecompioneers)
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The most memorable story is by one of our longtime site coordinators, Glenn Cekus, who heads cleanups at Calumet Beach on Chicagos south side. A few years ago when Glenn worked with the US Coast Guard, some of his colleagues did a dive during the Cleanup. One of them came to the surface and reported that it looked as if there were a dead body underwater. It happened that there were dozens of Boy Scouts there that day who had to be sent home when a 911 crew was called to the scene. After emergency dive crews went under, they eventually brought up a Coast Guard rescue dummy!
Most Peculiar Things

The International Coastal Cleanup data card includes a section to record the most peculiar thing found. At many Cleanups, these garner awards. here are some prizewinners from California: 2008:A family of crawdads living in a purse 2008: A 52-pound bag of dog hair 2009: A grand piano found in a creek 2009: Ten single, unmatched shoes 2010: A dead cow in a bag
We had a hurricane, so the things we have pulled out of the water and removed from our shores have been amazing. Not just tires, but the whole car; refrigerators still full; dining room tables with the silverware; and just about everything anybody can think of.
benjamin goliwas, louisiana coordinator (homeportneworleans.org)
Many boaters learn of the Cleanup through Ocean Conservancys green boating program Good Mate (www.oceanconservancy.org/goodmate), supported by the Brunswick Foundation. Boating clubs and marinas rally volunteers as well. The US Coast Guard Auxiliary, which educates boaters about ocean pollution, urges community members to participate. And the US Power In 1995, underwater Cleanup results were Squadron (a nonprofit, educational organiza- recorded separately for the first time. Some tion dedicated to making boating safer and 8,000 divers from more than 30 countries and more enjoyable) encourages its members 23 US states and locations got to work, cleaning across the country to come out and clean up. up more than 88,300 pounds of debris. The enthusiasm of divers grew. Two years later, www.oCeanConserVanCy.org/goodmate diver participation had jumped 235 percent, to more than 18,400. Since the early years, underwater Cleanup events have taken place in many lakes and waterways in addition to the ocean.
The weirdest find was a whole toilet a hundred meters out from the coast on the sea bed. We were wondering who went to all that trouble to take out the toilet on a boat to dump it when he/she could have used the bulk refuse service which is free in Malta.
vincent attard, malta coordinator (nature trust malta)
Over the past 17 years, Canadian Cleanup volunteers have found almost everything you would need for a wedding, including a wedding dress, engagement ring, tuxedo jacket, bow tie, wedding invitations, bride and groom cake topper, and veil.
jill dwyer, canada coordinator (great canadian shoreline cleanup)
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After basketball and boxing, politics is the most popular sport in Puerto rico. Every four years during elections, we find an array of political flags, flyers, and stickers that are both comical and depressing, considering the amount.
alberto mart, puerto rico coordinator (scuba dogs society)
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2010 international Coastal Cleanup

During the 25th anniversary Cleanup in 2010, 615,407 volunteers picked up more than 8 million pounds of trash and other debrisenough to cover about 170 football fields. They worked at 5,438 sites around the world. Since the first Cleanup in Texas in 1986, the Cleanup movement has grown tremendously, in large part due to the phenomenal reach of the Internet in recent years. Inspired volunteers spread the word through social networking. Ocean Conservancy uses e-newsletters and webinars to inform and train the Coordinators who organize events. And volunteers can find local Cleanups, get questions answered, and register online. In the past, Coordinators used the mail to deliver thousands of completed data cards to Ocean Conservancy. Now they can report results through Ocean Conservancys Online Data Collection and Reporting Tool. Participants share everything from local data to inspiring photos and stories on networking sites including Facebook and YouTube.
Types of Cleanup
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pounds of trash could cover about 170 football fields
>8 Million
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IN 2010, 114 COuNTrIes & lOCaTIONs ParTICIPaTed IN The INTerNaTIONal COasTal CleaNuP
American Samoa Argentina Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Bolivia Brazil British virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Canada Cape verde Channel Islands Chile China Colombia Cook Islands Costa rica Croatia Cyprus Denmark Dominica Dominican republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt Estonia Fiji Finland France Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Grenada Guam Guatemala Guyana Honduras Hong Kong India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kenya Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malaysia Maldives Malta Mauritius Mexico Mozambique Namibia Netherland Antilles Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria Northern Mariana Islands Oman Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto rico Qatar republic of Korea russia Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint vincent and the Grenadines Samoa Saudi Arabia Scotland Seychelles Singapore Sint Maarten, Dutch West Indies Slovakia Solomon Islands South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay US virgin Islands vanuatu venezuela vietnam Wales
beach/inland waterway underwater watercraft
600,427 8,620 6,360
8,284,229 251,845 162,498
14,520.0 194.3 144.7
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615,407 8,698,572
14,859
2010 international coastal
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Cleanup data
2010 Item Totals
shoreline & recreational activities
total debris items collected worldwide
9,843,121
USA
2010 Top Ten Participating Countries

rAnK CoUnTry or loCATIon nUMBer of VolUnTeerS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
united states philippines canada dominican republic india south africa puerto rico brazil mexico ecuador
114 CoUnTrIeS And loCATIonS
245,447 145,733 29,038 27,622 15,135 12,747 12,558 12,217 12,105 9,435 615,407
SOURCE: OCEAN CONSERVANCY/INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEANUP/2010
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CoUnTS
smoking-related activities
CoUnTS
bags (paper) bags (plastic) balloons beverage bottles (plastic) beverage bottles (glass) beverage cans caps, lids clothing, shoes cups, plates, forks, knives, spoons food wrappers/containers pull tabs 6-pack holders shotgun shells/wadding straws, stirrers toys
SUBToTAl
300,031 980,067 75,168 1,094,921 440,756 429,167 882,936 237,283 524,853 853,633 77,434 40,243 29,339 433,376 101,830 6,501,037
cigarettes/cigarette filters cigarette lighters cigar tips tobacco packaging/wrappers

SUBToTAl
1,892,526 56,477 140,856 136,956 2,226,815
dumping activities
appliances (refrigerators, washers, etc.) batteries building materials cars/car parts 55-gallon drums tires
SUBToTAl
7,134 26,205 108,322 21,613 4,772 21,858 189,904
human health Threats
medical/personal hygiene
condoms
ocean/waterway activities
27,366 55,350 14,555 26,318 123,589
diapers 38,444 65,872 49,970 16,820 10,812 92,412 27,951 46,899 25,456 48,541 15,326 79,252 241,896 42,125 801,776 syringes tampons/tampon applicators
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bait containers/packaging bleach/cleaner bottles buoys/floats

SOURCE: OCEAN CONSERVANCY/INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEANUP
crab/lobster/fish traps crates fishing line fishing lures/light sticks fishing nets light bulbs/tubes oil/lube bottles pallets plastic sheeting/tarps rope strapping bands
SUBToTAl
packs of cigarettes could have been filled with the amount of cigarettes/cigarette butts collected in 2010
94,626
cars could have been outfitted with tires from the trash collected in 2010
5,464
for all the years we have been doing beach Cleanups, plastic has been by far the most common article collected. people got so tired of recording plastic bottles that they started to write nuff and whole heap and too many to count. We had to incorporate this in our training so volunteers would understand the importance of the count.
volunteer Participation
Top Ten CoUnTrIeS And loCATIonS: The greatest turnouts came from the United States, the Philippines, and Canada. The Philippines nearly doubled their participation from the previous year. The countries with the most Cleanup sites were the United States (3,004), Canada (990), and Mexico (99). noTABle InCreASeS: Kenya, which had 196 volunteers in 2009, brought out 6,525 volunteers in 2010a stunning 3,229 percent increase. The Dominican Republic grew their volunteers by 137 percent, going from 11,636 to 27,622. UnITed STATeS: In the United States, volunteers covered 46 states and the District of Columbia. Only Kentucky, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Vermont did not turn in data cards. The states with the most individual Cleanup sites were California (629), Florida (417), and New York (276).
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
georgia north carolina new york texas virginia south carolina oregon pennsylvania
46 US STATeS And The dISTrICT of ColUMBIA
21,270 15,710 9,235 9,230 6,157 3,923 3,588 3,442 245,317
tamoy singh, jamaica coordinator (jamaica environmental trust)
Nearly 2.5 million of the items tallied during the 2010 Cleanup can impact human health. Batteries, car parts, and 55-gallon chemical drums can leak toxic compounds. Disposable diapers, syringes, and condoms may carry bacteria and other contaminants. Volunteers found 26,205 batteries in 2010.
2010 Top Ten Participating states

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california florida
108,741 25,290
hazards
ocean Conservancy surveyed the scientific literature to identify items shown to choke or entangle wildlife. They include: 6-Pack Holders Bags (Paper) Bags (Plastic) Balloons Beverage Bottles Beverage Cans Buoys/Floats Caps, Lids Cigar Tips Cigarette Lighters Cigarettes/ Cigarette Filters Clothing, Shoes Crab/Lobster/ Fish Traps Fishing Hooks Fishing Line Fishing Lures/ Light Sticks Fishing Nets Food Wrappers/ Containers Plastic Sheeting/ Tarps Pull Tabs Rope Strapping Bands Straws, Stirrers Toothbrushes
2010 Top Ten Items

rAnK deBrIS ITeM nUMBer of deBrIS ITeMS perCenTAge of ToTAl deBrIS ITeMS
2010 entangled wildlife found

WIldlIfe AMphIBIAnS BIrdS CorAlS/ SpongeS fISh InVerTeBrATeS MAMMAlS repTIleS ToTAl
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bags (plastic) caps, lids food wrappers/containers cups, plates, forks, knives, spoons beverage bottles (glass) straws, stirrers beverage cans bags(paper)
Top Ten ToTAl deBrIS ITeMS ToTAl deBrIS ITeMS WorldWIde
980,067 882,936 853,633 524,853 440,756 433,376 429,167 300,031 7,825,730 9,843,121
10% 9% 9% 5% 4% 4% 4% 3% 79% 100%
crab/lobster/fish traps fishing hooks fishing line fishing nets bags (plastic) ribbon/string rope 6-pack holders wire
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0 1 2 0 4 0 0 0 0 8
2 5 46 7 7 5 7 3 5 87
0 0 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 7
3 4 66 48 44 1 27 1 3 200
22 0 17 52 19 2 3 1 2 140
0 0 4 8 2 0 3 0 0 17
1 1 7 15 0 0 0 1 3 29
28 11 148 131 76 8 40 6 13 488
Inland Counts
In 2010, 487,000 volunteers scoured ocean shorelines around the world, while more than 127,000 participants worked inland. Although 77 percent of all debris items were collected from coastal shorelines, almost 60 percent of all Cleanups took place at inland sites in 2010, compared to only 40 percent the previous year. This shift demonstrates an increased awareness regarding the proliferation of marine debris as a serious threat not only to our oceans, but to our inland streams, rivers, and lakes.
Boaters and divers

Participating boaters used watercraft, including powerboats, sailboats, kayaks, and rafts to reach areas others couldnt; 6,360 boaters picked up 162,498 pounds. And 8,620 scuba divers (organized by Project AWARE Foundation) used their expertise to gather and categorize 251,845 pounds of everything from tires to tin cans from below the waters surface. While the items on the top ten list for 2010 are nearly the same as the 25-year list (see page 25), they fall in different order. For both, cigarettes and cigarette filters were the most prevalent; volunteers removed nearly 1.9 million from waterways and beaches in 2010. Plastic beverage bottles came in at number two (1,094,921) in 2010, and plastic bags placed third (980,067). Nine of the top ten items are disposable consumer goods.
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Items of special Interest

Volunteers also note items of local concern that may highlight problems like dumping or sewage disposal issues. At Long Beach in Puerto Galera in the Philippines, volunteers picked up 1,548 slippers and 792 ice chests in 2010, possibly lost at sea by container ships. Volunteers picking up and tallying trash and other debris often encounter wildlife, dead and alive, entangled in things like ropes or old fishing line. In 2010 they found 488 birds, fish, and animals. Among the 17 mammals were a bottlenose dolphin and a harbor seal. Fishing line and fishing nets were the most prevalent types of entangling debris (57 percent).
The data card process makes the Cleanup different from any other cleanup campaign.
terry raymond, dominica coordinator (dominica youth environment organisation)
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cigarettes/cigarette filters beverage bottles (plastic)
1,892,526 1,094,921
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From the texas Coast to the north paCiFiC gyre

Twenty-five years after the first official event in Texas, the International Coastal Cleanup has spread across the globe. Because our trash travels, it is winding up in the most remote placesincluding the middle of the ocean.
The way the Ocean should Be

Mallos ventured to the gyre aboard a 152-foot sailboat led by marine conservationist Mary Crowley of Project Kaisei, an ongoing mission of the Ocean Voyages Institute. For three full days and 549 miles, it was smooth sailing nothing but blue water. The crew spotted nine humpback whales, 32 white-sided dolphins, hundreds of Dalls porpoises, and one Sei whale. Not one item of trash, said Mallos. The way the ocean should be. And then, as day three came to an end, small items of trash including a plastic bottle and a bottle cap began to appear intermittently. By day five, things changed dramatically when a lost fishing net entangled the propeller. Crew members had to cut the marine debris away, losing valuable research time.
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rash accumulates in areas known as g yres in great concentrations because of converging ocean currents; researchers are studying gyres around the world. For instance, the Sea Education Association (SEA) research program out of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has conducted surveys for 22 years in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre. Students and researchers towed nets to determine what was in the water; 62 percent came back to the ship containing plastic debris. Scientists seek answers to many questions, such as How might this ocean trash be contaminating the food chain, and thus human health? and Can large concentrations of trash so far from land be cleaned up?
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norTh pACIfIC gyre

plastic into micro-fragments, or confetti. In certain areas, he says, the top three to six feet of water is dense with these microplastics. At one point, I waved my hand through the water and it came up covered with them. The image stuck with Mallos. He points out that larger items may be eye-catching, but consumer plastics were the major issue. Marine debris is largely caused by consumer behavior. We saw plastics of all shapes and sizes, everything from laundry baskets to hardhats. When considering the gyres, one thing is obvious: The flow of trash into our waterways and the ocean must stop. Nowhere is the necessity of the International Coastal Cleanup more apparent, says Mallos. As consumers, we need to systematically re-evaluate our daily behaviors, and make choices like drinking from reusable bottles, eliminating our use of single-use shopping bags, and recycling as much as we can.
eyewitness account
For the next five-and-a-half days, the crew of 20 took turns keeping watch. We saw a steady stream of debris, and wildlife swimming along with it, reports Mallos. Aggregations of fish beneath floating nets were common; we even saw a blue shark. But the most interesting thing was the coral reef fishthousands of miles from the nearest reefs. In addition to daily observations, on August 25 Mallos filled out an International Coastal Cleanup data card in honor of the 25th anniversary year; he tallied 4,000 pieces of plastic, 27 rope fragments, 11 fishing nets, and an assortment of one-time-use manufactured goods in just one afternoon. Over the course of the voyage, the full crew counted more than 17,000 pieces of plastic. What resonates, says Mallos, is that larger items like shampoo bottles or five-gallon gasoline tanks become brittle around the edges. Rubbing your hand along the edge shatters the
wildlife Impacts
The national oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates that 52 metric tons of lost fishing gear and other debris accumulate in the northwestern hawaiian Islands each year. Thats equivalent to about 290 adult male hawaiian monk seals, critically endangered animals that live there. Wildlife can become entangled in ocean trash and die, or suffer illness and death when they eat manufactured items.
norTh pACIfIC gyre
Ocean Conservancy sent marine scientist Nicholas Mallos to the North Pacific Gyre, also known as the Pacific Garbage Patch, to learn more. Although there has been considerable media coverage of the North Pacific Gyre, scientists still have much to learn about how debris accumulates there, Mallos explains. The North Pacific Gyre is often imagined as a floating island of trash; the truth is more complicated. We were seeking to dispel some myths, document the concentration of trash, and collect samples.
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myths and realities

Is the Pacific Garbage Patch Twice the size of Texas?
The North Pacific Gyre, popularly known as the Pacific Garbage Patch, cannot be precisely measured because gyres are fluid systems constantly on the move and changing. But as noted by scientist Nicholas Mallos, whose team counted 17,000 plastic fragments along with many whole items like basketballs and lawn chairs in just a few days, an enormous amount of manufactured material is present. inconsistent concentration of trash across surface waters of the Gyre makes understanding and proposing potential cleanup solutions much more complex. What is certain, though, is that there is an abundance of trash in the North Pacific Gyre, all of which is alien to ocean ecosystems and poses direct and indirect threats to the marine wildlife inhabiting it and humans that depend on it.
pacific
garbage patch
70%
68%
ready to reuse!
To study the use of reusable shopping bags in the United States and how participation in the Cleanup may change peoples behavior toward reducing marine debris, Ocean Conservancy conducted an informal survey of almost 1,700 International Coastal Cleanup volunteers in eight US states (Florida, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia) and Washington, DCand thanks to the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, each survey participant received an Ocean Conservancy reusable shopping bag. Clearly, it is very important for a large majority of the people surveyed (82 percent) to reduce single-use plastic bags.
60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10%

18% 38% 16% 44%
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hoW ofTen do yoU USe reUSABle ShoppIng BAgS?
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hoW IMporTAnT IS IT To redUCe The ConSUMpTIon of SIngle-USe plASTIC ShoppIng BAgS?
Microplastics
Plastic pieces measuring less than five millimeters result when trash including lawn chairs, laundry baskets, or cups breaks down in the water. Nurdles, small plastic pellets used in the manufacture of plastic products, also fall into this category; they may find their way to the water by way of storm drains when spilled during transpor t to fac tories. Microplastics also include tiny plastic beads in shower scrubs and cleaning products that serve as abrasives; these wash down drains into waterways and the ocean. Much more research is needed on the possible effects of these items on the food chain.
hoW lIKely Are yoU To USe ThIS reUSABle ShoppIng BAg?
are There really floating Islands of Trash?

No island of trash can be seen from the water or in aerial photographs or satellite images. Rather than coming together in a gigantic, solid mass, trash accumulates in gyres in varying and shifting concentrations, which can sometimes have the consistency of vegetable soupthink of the ocean as the broth and the trash as the vegetable chunks. The
six degrees of separation

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a plastic bag from los angeles
blows from a picnic site
vacuums Made with Ocean Plastic

Industry has the power to reachand educatemillions of people, and Electrolux is doing just that with their Vacs from the Sea, made from recycled plastic. The source of that material? Ocean trash collected around the world. When the company simply couldnt get enough high-grade recycled plastic to produce their vacuums, they decided to make a line of vacuums from plastic collected in beach cleanups. The goal is to raise awareness about both the scarcity of high-quality recycled material and the issue of plastics pollution.
into the los angeles river
then travels downriver to the pacific ocean
and into the california current, finding its way to the north pacific gyre and eventually arriving on midway atoll
where it threatens to entangle a critically endangered hawaiian monk seal
NetherlaNds aNtillesBoNaire Mabel Nava, imre esser (Bonaire) Sea Turtle Conservation Bonaire
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2010 Coordinators and sponsors

Country and location Coordinators
aMericaN saMoa christin reynolds GIS Office - Department of Commerce argeNtiNa daniel rolleri, liliana toranzo Asociacion ReCrear BahaMas anita Knowles, dshan Maycock (abaco) Friends of the Environment renamae symonette, erika gates (grand Bahama island) Bahamas Ministry of Tourism ranaldo smith (Nassau) Dolphin Encounters BaNgladesh s. M. Muntasir Mamun Kewkradong BarBados Michael thompson National Conservation Commission asha Jones Caribbean Youth Environmental Network BeliZe hilberto riverol The Scout Association of Belize BraZil caio Marco antonio ASSUUbatuba British VirgiN islaNds Jasmine Bannis Conservation & Fisheries Department BruNei alan tan Beach Bunch caNada Jill dwyer (British columbia) Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre gay Wittrien (New Brunswick) The Green NetworkACAP Saint John david Boyce (Prince edward island) Southeast Environmental Association cayMaN islaNds Kim Pisano Cayman Islands Tourism Association chile leonardo de la Maza Seccin Planes de Contingencia y Simulacin Departamento Preservacin del Medio Ambiente Acutico y de Combate a la Contaminacin chiNa yonglong liu Shanghai Rendu Enterprise Consulting Co., Ltd. costa rica giovanna longhi cyPrus andreas demetropoulos Cyprus Wildlife Society doMiNica terry raymond Dominica Youth Environment Organisation doMiNicaN rePuBlic oscar oviedo Fundacion Vida Azul carolina guisande ecuador Jaime Paredes Mar y Ambiente Consultores cap. Miguel Mosquera B., sergio Bazan (galapagos) Fundacion Ecologica Albatros egyPt Maha youssry, emad adly Ghazala Hotels FraNce arnaud Botquelen Ar Viltansou ghaNa lailah lartey-antwi Smart Youth Volunteers Foundation greece constantinos triantafillou HELMEPA greNada dr. clare Morrall St. Georges University guaM tom Quinata Guam Coastal Management Program guateMala Milthon cardenas/Marlon lopez Eco Pro Diver guyaNa trevor Benn GuyberNet haiti lieutenant commander yerko cattarinich MINUSTAH Force Headquarters hoNg KoNg lisa christensen Ecovision Asia Philip cheng Green Council iNdia captain rajan Vir Indian Maritime Foundation iNdoNesia hani taufik Yayasan JARI israel ronen alkalay Marine and Coastal DivisionMinistry of the Environment JaMaica suzanne stanley Jamaica Environmental Trust JaPaN yoshiko ohkura /azusa Kojima Japan Environmental Action Network edo heinrich-sanchez, Naoko Kiyan (ryukyu islands, okinawa) Okinawa O.C.E.A.N. KeNya Fred sewe Green Future Holdings Ltd. Malaysia Jesse siew, Maizura Mazlan The Body Shop West Malaysia Malta Vince attard Nature Trust (Malta) Mexico staci hagen (Baja) Center for Coastal Studies lidia silva iniguez (colima) Universidad de Colima Maria tereza Pereira-Barros (sonora) Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans alejandra lopez de roman (tamaulipas) Club Regatas Corona, A.C.
NetherlaNds aNtillessaBa susan hurrell Saba Marine Park/Saba Hyperbaric Facility Nicaragua sarah otterstrom/liza gonzalez Paso Pacifico Nigeria Prince ene Baba-owoh Clean-Up Nigeria NortherN MariaNas islaNds William Pendergrass Coastal Resources Management Office NorWay Matthew armstrong International School of Stavanger PaNaMa Jenny echeverria, angel cardenas Asociacion Nacional para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza Peru erika V. Pariamachi Medina/ arturo e. alfaro Medina VIDAInstituto para la Proteccion del Medio Ambiente PhiliPPiNes gerry P. reyes, romeo B. trono International Marinelife AlliancePhilippines/Conservation International ProJect aWare FouNdatioN (aMericas) lauren Wiskerson, Jenny Miller garmendia ProJect aWare FouNdatioN (asia PaciFic) Joanne Marston ProJect aWare FouNdatioN (euroPe) daniela Muehlheim, dominic Ziegler ProJect aWare FouNdatioN (iNterNatioNal) domino albert, suzanne Pleydell ProJect aWare (JaPaN) Michihisa Kimizuka rePuBlic oF Korea sun Wook hong Our Sea of East Asia Network russia yana yu. Blinovskaya (Ph.d) Sea Protection Institute Maritime State University siNgaPore N sivasothi/lim chen Kee Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, NUS south aFricacaPe toWN John Kieser Coastal CleanupSouth Africa south aFricaKWaZulu-Natal Wayne Munger KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife st. Kitts aNd NeVisNeVis Miriam Knorr Nevis Historical & Conservation Society st. Kitts aNd NeVisst. Kitts sylvester Belle Department of Physical Planning and Environment saiNt lucia Marcia dolor Caribbean Youth Environment Network siNt MaarteN, dutch West iNdies Jadira Veen Sint Maarten Pride Foundation saiNt ViNceNt aNd the greNadiNes andrew simmons JEMS Environmental Management Services taiWaN ted chang Kuroshio Ocean Education Foundation thailaNd suhatai Praisankul Department of Marine and Coastal Resources Kanyarat Kosavisutte Green Fins Association triNidad aNd toBago Marissa Mohamed Caribbean Network for Integrated Rural Development turKey Filiz uykusuz Turkish Marine Environment Protection Association uNited araB eMirates ahmed Bin Byat/ibrahim al-Zubi Emirates Diving Association uNited KiNgdoM emma snowden Marine Conservation Society us VirgiN islaNdsst. croix Marcia taylor University of the Virgin IslandsVIMAS us VirgiN islaNdsst. JohN audrey Penn Friends of Virgin Islands National Park us VirgiN islaNdsst. thoMas christine settar University of the Virgin IslandsVIMAS uruguay cristina Quintas EcoPlata VeNeZuela deborah Bigio, diana ruiz FUDENA VietNaM Nguyen thi thu trang Centre for Marinelife Conservation and Community Development (MCD)
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chiNa Shanghai Rendu Enterprise Consulting Co., Ltd. Committee of CCYL of East Sea Ocean Environment Supervision Centre of State Ocean Administration Grassroots Community Friends of Nature Shanghai Oasis Wide Life Conservancy Exchange Centre Johnson & Johnson China Ltd. Global Strategic Design OperationsPackaging Development Ford Motor China Ltd. Round Earth Environmental Protection Organization of Shanghai Ocean University Committee of CCYL of Shanghai Pudong New District Shengang Subdistrict Shanghai Puxin Cleaning Service Company costa rica Sardimar Instituto Costarricense de Turismo Restaurante Tin Jo Musmanni Banco Nacional Bayer Intel Glaxo Smith Kline Coca-Cola Credomatic doMiNica Youth Development Division Dominica Solid Waste Management Cooperation Springfield Trading Phillip Motor Pool Petro Caribe Dominica Electricity Services Dominica Brewery & Beverages Ltd. National Development Foundation Waitukubuli National Trail Project Dominica Cologate doMiNicaN rePuBlic Banco Popular Dominicano Centro Cuesta Nacional AES Dominicana Voluntariado Manos Mormonas que Ayudan Propagas AFP Siembra Coca-Cola DP World Caucedo ARS Palic Salud Nestle ecuador Ministry of Environment of Ecuador Subsecretary of Marin and Coastal Management Coca-Cola Foundation Peamco Municipalities Radio Platinum Ballenita SI Mar y Ambiente Consultores greece Hellenic Marine Environment Protection AssociationHELMEPA
hoNg KoNg (ecoVisioN asia) Nomura CLSA Kerry Holdings Limited Ocean Park Air Canada Apsis Gammon Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Carlsberg Pacsafe hoNg KoNg (greeN couNcil) Hong Kong International Airport The China Paint Mfg. Co., Ltd. Shun Tak-China Travel Ship Management Ltd. Coca-Cola China Limited Fuji Xerox SPI (Overseas) Limited israel Clean Up Israel Ruach Tova Intel Israel Naharia Municipality The Green Cell-Acre Zhahala Marine scoutsBat yam Eilat Municipality IDF JaMaica Tourism Enhancement Fund JaPaN (JaPaN eNViroNMeNtal actioN NetWorK) Japan Fund for Global Environment Philip Morris Japan, K.K. UPS Japan Co., Ltd. NETOFF, Inc. Sapporo Breweries Ltd. The Beverage Industry Environment Beautification Association Amway Nature Center Japan NUS Co., Ltd. Patagonia Japan (Voice Your Chance) MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc. Greenstyle Daishinsha CALME Johnson Controls Ei Publishing Co., Ltd Gofield.com, Inc. JaPaN (oKiNaWaryuKyu islaNds) Karahai Okinawa Experience Nirai Kanai KAISOU Original Clothing Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company Employees Save Our Ocean Project MsDS Inc. Okinawa Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Ltd. FOX Int. Channels (Japan) Fox Summer Beach Party Okinawa AU Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company Johnson & Johnson K.K.
Mexico (coliMa) Universidad de Colima Administracin Portuaria de Manzanillo (APIMAN) Hotel Tesoro Ecoltec-Planta Tecomn H. Ayuntamiento de Manzanillo: Fomento EconmicoTursmo y Servicios Publicos-Zofemat Mexico (taMauliPas) Fundacion Coca-Cola Mexico Club Regatas Corona, A.C. Ayuntamiento de Tampico Grupo Tampico MC Dermott O.R. Constructores, S.A. de C.V. Patronato Playa Miramar El Porvenir Recuperadora de Aceros Gen Nicaragua Cooperacion del Gobierno de Suiza-COSUDE Claro Casco Safety Fuente PuraEmprese Cervecera de Nicaragua La Costea Hotel Pelican Eyes Hotel Seminole Guacalito de la Isla del Grupo Empresarial Pellas Ingenio San Antonio-NSEL-CLNSA CAMANICA-WCS-ITTF-Sacos de Nicaragua PhiliPPiNes Sunwest Group of Companies Misibis Land Inc. Chevron Philippines, Inc. and Chevron Batangas Terminal Batangas Coastal Resources Management Foundation DHL Philippines Canon Evian Pepsi Ayos PinasNasugbu Branch Subic Royal Duty Free Subic Freeport ExchangeTraders russia Morecotech Ltd. Maritime State University named after Admiral G.I. Nevelskoy Ecological web browser Defenders and Keepers south aFrica (KWa Zulu Natal) Plastics Federation of South Africa ABI Coca-Cola south aFrica (NortherN, WesterN aNd easterN caPe) Plastics Federation of South Africa Pick n Pay Ripcurl Fortune Bottlers of Coca-Cola Kelppak Fima Films City of Cape Town USABCO Irvin and Johnson Transnet Reef Peninsula Bottlers of Coca-Cola Toyota South Africa
siNt MaarteN, dutch West iNdies St. Maarten Hospitality and Trade Association (SHTA) Office of the Dutch Representation in St. Maarten Zee Best Caf Caribbean Liquors and Tobacco for Volvic Water Firgos Paper Sunny Foods The Daily Herald Mercedes de Windt Windward Islands Emergency Medical Services (WIEMS) Kooyman st. Kitts aNd NeVis Nevis Trinity Broadcasting Nevis/Radio Paradise Lime IFG Trust Services Sugar Mill Real Estate Island Storage Four Seasons Resort Nevis S.L. Horsfords Oualie Beach Hotel and Resort Lyn and Hudson Hoen Solid Waste Management st. Kitts Christophe Harbour Development PetroCaribe PDV St. Kitts Nevis Ltd. st. ViNceNt aNd the greNadiNes Central Water and Sewage Authority Randys Supermarket Environmental Management DepartmentMinistry of Health and the Environment taiWaN National Museum of Marine Science & Technology Tainan Community College The Society of Wilderness Environmental Protection Bureau of Penghu County Sustainable Environment Education Division of Taipei County thailaNd Department of Marine and Coastal Resource Green Fins Thailand Coca-Cola Ltd. (Thailand) SaenSuk City Indego Real Estate uNited araB eMirates (oMaN, BahraiN, Qatar & KuWait) ADMA Body Glove Coca-Cola Dubai Chamber Dubai Duty Free Environment AgencyAbu Dhabi (EAD) Gasco Le Meridien Al Aqah uNited KiNgdoM SeaFrance Dover to Calais Ferries SeaFrance Limited
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Country and location sponsors

argeNtiNa YPF Refineras La Plata The Walt Disney Company Hotel Conde Mar del Plata Scouts Argentina Zona Atlntica n 17 Prefectura Naval La Plata Coca-Cola BahaMas (Nassau) Dolphin Encounters Ltd. (Main Sponsor) T&K Trucking Caribbean Bottling Company Bahamas Ltd. Bahamas Wholesale John Taylor Trucking Ports International Aquapure and Chelseas Choice Dan Knowles Tours, Leisure Tours and Johnsons Bus Service Bahamas Waste Creative Eyes Video Production & Flawless Image Photography BaNgladesh Banglalink (Orascom Telecom Bangladesh Ltd.) Arirang Aviation BarBados Coca-Cola (Bank Holdings Ltd.) Atlantis Submarines Deloitte The Barbados Light and Power Tourism Development Corporation of Barbados
BeliZe Bowen and Bowen Ltd. Augusto Quan Ltd. Hofius Northern Fishermen Co-operative Belize Waste Control James Brodie Ltd. Caribbean Tobacco Company Belize Audubon Society Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute BraZil Coca-Cola FEMSA Tetra Pak Dow Brasil Transpetro Danny British VirgiN islaNds Conservation and Fisheries Department Ocean Conservancy Road Town Wholesale Trading Ltd./ Riteway Food Market/Dasani Tico Wines & Spirit Rosewood Little Dix Bay Resort BruNei Poni Divers Sahaya Restaurant & Catering Beach Bunch Brunei Adventure Recreation Association Challenge Adventure Recreation Education Dean Racing Team caNada Loblaw Companies Limited (Presenting Sponsor) National Sponsors Home Depot Canada Foundation Molson Canadian chile Coca-Cola de Chile
us VirgiN islaNds st croix University of the Virgin Islands VI Waste Management Authority st. John VI Ecotours Just Beach First Bank Lana Vento Charitable Trust Maho Bay Campgrounds Estate Concordia Preserve St. John Community Foundation st. thomas Lana Vento Charitable Trust First Bank uruguay Coca-Cola HSBC Banco
georgia harold harbert Department of Natural Resources haWaii christine (chris) Woolaway Friends of Honolulu Parks & Recreation illiNois Frances canonizado/ryan Maloney Alliance for the Great Lakes iNdiaNa Frances canonizado/ryan Maloney Alliance for the Great Lakes KaNsas Jennifer clay louisiaNa Benjamin F. goliwas sr / Joann Burke HomePortNewOrleans.Org MaiNe theresa torrent-ellis Maine Coastal Program MarylaNd Kimberly Fehrer Assateague Coastal Trust geri schlenoff Massachusetts Kristin uiterwyk, dennis leigh Urban Harbors InstituteUniversity of Massachusetts MichigaN Jamie cross Alliance for the Great Lakes MiNNesota Micaella Kinzli Great Lakes Aquarium MississiPPi lauren thompson Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Missouri Jennifer clay MoNtaNa Karen McKinnon Helena Scuba NeBrasKa Jane Polson Keep Nebraska Beautiful NeVada Madonna dunbar Incline Village General Improvement District (IVGID) Waste Not Programs NeW haMPshire Jen Kennedy Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation NeW Jersey elizabeth Burke Alliance for a Living Ocean tavia danch Clean Ocean Action Kerry Pflugh New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Adopt-A-Beach
NeW yorK Natalie grant American Littoral Society North caroliNa Judy Bolin North Carolina Big Sweep Statewide Headquarters North daKota randy Kraft SCUBA One ohio linda Zmudzinski Ohio Lake Erie Commission oKlahoMa ron strickland Northwest Oklahoma Scuba oregoN rachael Pecore SOLV PeNNsylVaNia leni herr Verizon TelecomPioneers ProJect aWare FouNdatioN (aMericas) lauren Wiskerson/Jenny Miller garmendia Puerto rico alberto Mart/ana trujillo Scuba Dogs Society rhode islaNd July lewis Audubon Society of Rhode Island south caroliNa susan Ferris hill South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium south daKota dennis lively High Plains Diving & Micks Scuba Center texas renee tuggle Texas General Land Office utah Melissa Bowers The Living Planet Aquarium VirgiNia Katie register Clean Virginia WaterwaysLongwood University WashiNgtoN Joan hauser-crowe West VirgiNia terri delucca WiscoNsiN todd Brennan Alliance for the Great Lakes
us state/district of Columbia sponsors

alaBaMa ADCNR State Lands Division, Coastal Section Alabama People Against a Littered State (PALS) Alabama Department of Transportation Baldwin County Commission Bebos Car Wash ExxonMobil Honda Manufacturing of Alabama Mobile Gas NOAA Vulcan Materials Company ariZoNa Arizona Clean and Beautiful The Coca-Cola Company Ocean Conservancy caliForNia Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring Water Oracle Whole Foods Market Waste Management Natures Path Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Natracare KPMG Sees Candies Roplast Industries colorado The Greenway Foundation Trout Unlimited REI Riverfront Park Community Foundation Denver Parks and Recreation Scientific and Cultural Facilities District Downtown Aquarium Denver United Site Services Glaceau Vitamin Water Greenway Preservation Trust coNNecticut Whole Foods Market Kayak for a Cause (KFAC) Barrett Outdoor Communications, Inc. Patagonia of Westport Playtex Products, LLC delaWare Delmarva Power Playtex Division of Energizer Personal Care Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Maryland Department of Natural ResourcesMaryland Park Service Delaware Adopt-A-Beach Program Friends of the Nanticoke River Nanticoke Watershed Alliance Clean Ocean Action Beach Sweeps Pocamoke River Canoe Company Sierra Club
IndIA
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us state/district of Columbia Coordinators

alaBaMa amy King (adcNr)/spencer ryan (Pals) ADCNR State Lands Division Coastal Section alasKa Patrick chandler Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies ariZoNa Jennifer gale Arizona Clean & Beautiful arKaNsas adam roberts Hot Springs/Garland County Beautification Commission caliForNia eben schwartz/chris (christiane) Parry/shannon Waters California Coastal Commission colorado alicia hamilton Downtown Aquarium Denver coNNecticut Kierran Broatch Save the Sound, a program of Connecticut Fund for the Environment delaWare Joanna Wilson Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control district oF coluMBia sonya Besteiro Ocean Conservancy Florida Becky grieser Walt Disney Parks & Resorts
district oF coluMBia American University Booz Allen Hamilton Capitol Host University of Maryland School of Public Health Coca-Cola Scholars Virgin America Airlines Green Team georgia Georgia Power The Coca-Cola Company Oglethorpe Power Burns & McDonnell Golder Associates Hunton & Williams Kodak Sutherland illiNois Dr. Scholl Foundation ITW Hi-Cone Brunswick Public Foundation Aveda Home Depot The Siragusa Foundation Buchanan Family Foundation Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Foundation Chicago Park District iNdiaNa Dr. Scholl Foundation The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Aveda Home Depot NiSource Shedd Aquarium Northwestern Cutlery Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission
louisiaNa Toyota (Presenting Sponsor) Entergy (Major Sponsor) Atmos Energy (Picnic Sponsor) Partners: Big Branch Marsh NWR Friends of Louisiana Wildlife Refuges Keep Mandeville Beautiful Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Madisonville Chamber of Commerce Mandeville Public Works New Orleans Department of Sanitation MarylaNd Whole Foods Market Home Depot REI Outdoor Store Wal-Mart Wegmans Food Market Sams Club Maryland Monogram Products Walgreens Delmarva Power Massachusetts Massachusetts Marine Trades Association Weston Solutions Massachusetts Environmental Trust Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Cape Cod Potato Chips Dunkin Donuts MiNNesota Great Lakes Aquarium At Saras Table Chester Creek Caf WLSSD Lake Superior Magazine Whole Foods Co-Op Barr Engineering Minnesota Power Innerspace Scuba
USA
ThAIlAnd
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south caroliNa Applied Technology & Management BP Cooper River Plant Charleston City Marina Charleston Water System Coastal Expeditions Mount Pleasant Waterworks SC State Ports Authority The Duke Energy Foundation Wal-Mart Market #34 south daKota Black Hills Scuba texas Shell Oil Company KBR HNTB El Paso Corporation AT&T Pioneers Halliburton LyondellBasell utah The Living Planet Aquarium Great Salt Lake InstituteWestminster College Friends of the Great Salt Lake Neumont University Frito Lays Dive Addicks Jordanelle State Park Woodrow Wilson Community Learning Center SWCA VirgiNia Longwood University Altria Group, Inc. Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund Glad Trash Bags Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation Virginia Coastal Program, Department of Environmental Quality Ocean Conservancy WashiNgtoN Pacific Northwest 4 Wheel Drive Association Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission Department of Ecology Puget Soundkeeper Alliance/NOAA Bank of America Seattle Parks TEVA Kitsap Diving Association & Kitsap Trees/ Shoreline Association/Kitsap Public Works Grays Harbor County Commissioners Brem-Air, Inc/Blue Sky Printing WiscoNsiN Wisconsin Coastal Management Program Levi Strauss Foundation Rockwell Automation SC Johnson Fund, Inc. Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Foundation Aveda Buchanan Family Foundation
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MississiPPi sea turtle-level sponsors: BP Chevron Pascagoula Refinery High Cotton Grill Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Mississippi Power shark-level sponsors: The Shed Barbeque & Blues Joint Beverage Association of Mississippi Waste Management Delta Sanitation of Mississippi, LLC NeBrasKa Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality City of Beatrice-Board of Public Works Wal-Mart Knights of Columbus NeW haMPshire New Hampshire Coastal Program/New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services NOAA Marine Debris Program Waste Management Portsmouth Regional Hospital Wentworth Douglass Hospital Exeter Hospital Starbucks Coffee Wal-Mart Seacoast Coca-Cola Poland Spring NeW yorK Anderson-Rogers Foundation Josh & Judy Weston Hudson River Foundation/NYCEF Christopher and Deborah Buck Bloomberg Company Bank of New York Mellon JP Morgan Chase Bank MCJ Amelior Foundation NextEra Energy Pepsico Foundation
ohio Lake Erie Commission Ohio Department of Natural Resources City of MentorKeep Mentor Beautiful Lake Erie CenterUniversity of Toledo Ohio State Parks Ohio Nature Preserves Green Advisory Group of Brunswick Ohio Clean Your Streams Ohio Environmental Protection Agency oregoN Oregon Lottery Oregon Parks and Recreation Department Metro Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission AAA of Oregon Alaskan Brewing Co. & Columbia Distributing Fred Meyer The Port of Portland Portland General Electric Wells Fargo PeNNsylVaNia Verizon TelecomPioneers Bank of America PA Department of Environmental Protection and PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Laurel Foundation Mellon Foundation Waste Management Inc. Lord Corporation PennDOT Blue Mountain Outfitters American Rivers
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the oCean trash index
terminology
land Cleanup
A Cleanup that was conducted on a beach or inland waterway. nlandCleanup:This type of I Cleanup site borders waterways that are located inland, such as rivers, lakes, streams, and ponds. It is not located on the ocean. oastalCleanup:This type of C Cleanup site borders the ocean, a bay, or estuary.
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Pounds
Volunteers determine the pounds collected for a country, location, or US state by actual weight where scales are available. Otherwise, Coordinators estimate total weight at 15 pounds per bag of trash.
he Ocean Trash Index presents state-by-state and countryby-country data about ocean trash collected and tallied by volunteers around the world on one day each fall during Ocean Conservancys International Coastal Cleanup. Volunteers have collected data since 1986; the data are used to raise awareness and inform policy and solutions.
Cleanups alone cant solve this pollution problem; the Ocean Trash Index provides a snapshot of just whats trashing our ocean so we can work to prevent specific items from reaching the water in the first place. For more, visit www.oceanconservancy.org.
Methodology and research Notes

Ocean Conservancy produces data cards in nine languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Thai, Swahili, and Arabic. Ocean Conservancy, in conjunction with its US and international volunteer Coordinators, has collected and compiled data during the International Coastal Cleanup since 1986 within the United States, and since 1989 internationally. From 1986 through 2000, Cleanup volunteers tallied debris items on standardized data cards developed and provided by Ocean Conservancy. During this time, debris was categorized by the type of material, such as wood, rubber, plastic, glass, paper, and metal. In 2001, Ocean Conservancy revised and simplified the data card to include 42 specific debris items and groupings related to five debris-producing activities and sources such as Smoking-Related Activities and Shoreline & Recreational Activities. The new groupings identify the behavior associated with the presence of debris. In 2008, Ocean Conservancy decided to tally paper and plastic bags separately, for a total of 43 items listed. The Coordinator for a country, location, or US state enters totals for each site into Ocean Conservancys secure Online Data Collection and Reporting Tool by the Cleanup Coordinator for the country, location, or US state. Coordinators may also mail, email, or fax totals to Ocean Conservancy. All data sent to Ocean Conservancy and not entered by the Coordinator are entered by Ocean Conservancy staff. The result is a unique, global online database of debris information collected from Cleanup sites around the world.
dATA AnAlySIS: Ocean Conservancy staff members analyze data, sorting it by country, location, and US state using reports generated by the Online Data Collection and Reporting Tool. Country, location, and US state geographic designations are made using the CIA World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ uk.html. Data are also analyzed by regions determined using the UN Statistical Division, http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin. htm. A location identified in the Marine Debris Index refers to a geographic area that is governed by a particular country but is not in the same geographic location (for example, the Netherlands Antilles are governed by the Netherlands, but are located in a different geographic area). These geographic designations do not imply Ocean Conservancys opinion of the legal status of any country, territory, or location, or concern the delimitation of boundaries. lIMITATIonS of The dATA: Volunteers (not paid staff or researchers) collect data while cleaning up on a single day. Ocean Conservancy produces data cards in nine languages; a language barrier could exist for some volunteers. The data represented in this report are only what was shared with Ocean Conservancy; if all participating locations reported in, totals could be higher. Weather events can impact Cleanups and may decrease data return for a certain country, location, or US state. InTerpreTATIon of The dATA: The data collected document what was removed from a certain location, on a certain day, by volunteers. The data provide the most comprehensive and measurable global snapshot of the worlds marine debris, as well as a breakdown of sources and debris items found in US states, countries, locations, and regions of the world. Due to the large sample and nature of the collection, the data provide a baseline for other studies. This valuable information is an effective tool for educating the public, business, industry, and government officials about the presence of marine debris, and how and where to take specific actions to prevent it.
underwater Cleanup
A Cleanup that was conducted underwater by certified scuba divers.
watercraft Cleanup
A Cleanup that was conducted off shore by a watercraft, including kayaks, canoes, sailboats, and motorboats.
People or volunteers
The Coordinator counts the people (volunteers) at a Cleanup site, totals numbers for each country, location, or US state, and sends the numbers to Ocean Conservancy.
Miles
The miles determined for a country, location, or US state are the sum of the estimated distances of each Cleanup site within a country, location, or US state. The distance for a Cleanup site is the estimated mileage from the start of where volunteers cleaned up to the end location.
International debris Breakdown

COuNTrY Or lOCaTION aMerICaN saMOa aruBa ausTralIa ausTrIa BahaMas BahaMas BahaMas BahaMas BahraIN BaNGladesh BarBadOs BelGIuM BelIze
island (iF aVailaBle)

shOrelINe & reCreaTIONal aCTIvITIes
andros
grand Bahama island
nassau
total
Bags (paper) Bags (plastic) Balloons Beverage Bottles (plastic) Beverage Bottles (glass) Beverage Cans Caps, Lids Clothing, Shoes Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons Food Wrappers/Containers Pull Tabs 6-Pack Holders Shotgun Shells/Wadding Straws, Stirrers Toys
CaTeGOrY TOTals OCeaN/waTerwaY aCTIvITIes
310 881 94 737 687 553 957 481 1,268 536 99 267 30 446 210 7,556
0 187 0 109 174 55 258 32 113 0 0 0 0 101 1 1,030
101 617 18 204 210 168 365 50 152 512 7 0 325 116 16 2,861
13 21 0 25 8 22 16 3 11 12 16 6 22 18 56 249
0 0 0 21 742 458 0 4 0 0 5 0 1 0 2 1,233
118 301 8 612 234 239 389 148 531 191 4 8 5 26 19 2,833
1,263 1,358 76 1,849 1,072 1,137 1,418 1,073 1,313 1,109 100 84 700 292 161 13,005
1,381 1,659 84 2,482 2,048 1,834 1,807 1,225 1,844 1,300 109 92 706 318 182 1 7,071
20 90 0 43 16 40 22 2 27 50 3 0 3 18 0 334
1,174 715 65 543 258 742 1,084 193 3,579 14,179 417 0 0 4,298 62 27,309
0 548 0 1,100 295 77 3,272 507 256 538 2 0 4 6 29 6,634
27 61 7 59 61 118 18 14 30 191 3 2 0 21 1 613
732 2,285 177 1,945 750 503 3,774 1,514 2,255 2,982 86 33 63 517 380 1 7,996
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Bait Containers/Packaging Bleach/Cleaner Bottles Buoys/Floats Crab/Lobster/Fish Traps Crates Fishing Line Fishing Lures/Light Sticks Fishing Nets Light Bulbs/Tubes Oil/Lube Bottles Pallets Plastic Sheeting/Tarps Rope Strapping Bands
CaTeGOrY TOTals sMOKING-relaTed aCTIvITIes
95 118 27 4 3 6 32 7 14 127 5 67 64 16 585
0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 0 4 3 19
33 6 14 1 2 533 19 1 0 0 2 5 21 10 647
4 3 1 3 1 1 9 4 0 0 0 12 5 5 48
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 4
21 38 18 84 7 4 2 32 10 97 10 21 106 7 457
125 205 77 112 113 48 21 28 76 173 34 73 118 44 1,247
146 243 96 196 120 52 23 60 86 270 44 94 227 51 1,708
1 2 0 3 0 4 1 1 0 5 0 6 10 0 33
23 3 52 90 0 74 5 145 11 17 0 205 125 17 767
0 46 28 4 46 15 81 17 53 18 6 105 840 7 1,266
0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 4 18 4 32
72 198 587 25 53 113 75 17 46 105 33 73 102 45 1,544
Cigarettes/Cigarette Filters Cigarette Lighters Cigar Tips Tobacco Packaging/Wrappers

CaTeGOrY TOTals duMPING aCTIvITIes
161 25 0 63 249
0 0 52 0 52
851 8 2 23 884
2 13 3 22 40
2 0 0 0 2
12 5 1 5 23
132 72 91 77 372
146 77 92 82 397
9 0 0 16 25
15,076 68 4 662 15,810
4 64 0 0 68
38 7 0 10 55
276 53 689 53 1,071
Appliances (refrigerators, washers, etc.) Batteries Building Materials Cars/Car Parts 55-Gallon Drums Tires
CaTeGOrY TOTals MedICal/PersONal hYGIeNe
4 11 223 19 5 49 311
0 0 3 3 0 0 6
1 3 26 1 0 0 31
1 1 15 7 1 0 25
0 0 0 0 1 0 1
2 1 60 8 1 7 79
168 64 268 185 33 74 792
170 65 328 193 35 81 872
0 0 32 0 0 0 32
0 146 23 0 0 12 181
7 0 284 24 3 0 318
0 0 11 1 0 0 12
7 42 183 17 6 59 314
Condoms Diapers Syringes Tampons/Tampon Applicators

CaTeGOrY TOTals TOTals
9 111 20 35 1 75 8,876
4 29 1 0 34 1,141
2 5 6 0 13 4,436
1 4 2 0 7 369
0 0 0 0 0 1,240
11 6 0 2 19 3,411
368 205 18 75 666 16,082
379 211 18 77 685 20,733
0 0 0 0 0 424
48 8 48 0 104 44,1 71
10 1 17 2 30 8,316
0 2 0 0 2 714
182 59 123 6 370 21,295

COuNTrY Or lOCaTION BrazIl BrITIsh vIrGIN IslaNds BrITIsh vIrGIN IslaNds BrITIsh vIrGIN IslaNds BruNeI BulGarIa CaNada CaPe verde ChaNNel IslaNds ChIle ChINa COlOMBIa COOK IslaNds COsTa rICa

tortola
Virgin gorda
total
5,787 13,979 125 5,406 2,626 2,775 2,079 2,839 2,235 7,000 394 2,288 0 4,392 427 52,352
47 100 0 320 179 183 67 22 70 60 12 9 0 27 19 1,115
0 4 0 38 22 25 22 6 24 0 0 0 0 0 2 143
47 104 0 358 201 208 89 28 94 60 12 9 0 27 21 1,258
0 295 0 322 44 48 61 29 41 72 0 0 0 11 19 942
91 582 0 592 137 501 422 45 583 277 77 14 15 7 15 3,358
18,289 56,396 4,234 28,776 20,866 28,790 55,831 8,343 29,545 84,891 7,813 2,404 2,846 23,539 5,796 378,359
11 51 2 201 293 20 26 88 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 698
0 235 0 372 0 221 41 0 0 91 0 0 0 0 0 960
3,927 8,038 434 5,747 3,918 2,997 9,305 1,384 2,031 4,866 210 363 102 1,484 828 45,634
65 10,974 11 100,263 265 1,079 1,179 458 1,207 659 32 9 6 57 23 116,287
632 638 454 520 3,005 130 140 362 839 44 25 22 22 25 32 6,890
276 208 0 359 419 449 214 79 459 607 0 0 0 30 0 3,100
2,074 11,910 101 172,418 6,354 32,593 49,325 6,356 6,358 9,437 297 222 11 22,431 2,536 322,423
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0 649 369 3 24 87 1 26 116 161 1,280 362 258 86 3,422
0 33 10 0 2 6 0 4 6 38 2 6 21 6 134
0 0 0 0 3 40 0 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 48
0 33 10 0 5 46 0 4 8 38 3 6 23 6 182 0
0 31 24 0 1 3 0 12 18 4 0 0 6 0 99
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2,677 968 2,802 380 326 3,367 1,349 759 433 1,120 380 3,691 9,133 3,638 31,023
0 2 1 4 1 10 0 15 16 1 0 3 18 0 71
0 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26
251 413 407 93 250 302 173 377 483 637 176 929 2,283 614 7,388
65 6 952 10 27 50 1 199 22 16 135 149 333 54 2,019
85 46 123 16 393 76 102 1,880 49 8 963 6 143 7 3,897
0 0 0 0 1 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 41
5 18,019 6,392 209 84 34 424 55 242 1,852 2 78 277 19 27,692

8,959 57 4 656 9,676
2 3 4 8 1 7
0 0 0 0 0
2 3 4 8 1 7
102 13 0 33 148
925 32 1 139 1,097
230,023 2,832 13,629 13,944 260,428
109 1 0 3 113
395 0 0 0 395
16,882 1,050 7,987 3,967 29,886
10,090 64 24 103 10,281
4 0 0 0 4
376 5 0 13 394
1,826 1,266 71 316 3,479
187 110 6,395 153 12 122 6,979
10 0 14 14 22 9 69
0 0 5 0 0 0 5
10 0 19 14 22 9 74
0 14 4 2 0 19 39
3 8 0 3 11 3 28
282 1,187 11,119 1,843 132 978 15,541
0 2 59 4 0 3 68
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 866 1,292 87 25 276 2,568
5 7 139 23 2 47 223
0 12 4 0 0 9 25
0 7 22 3 0 29 61
68 1,326 832 146 36 260 2,668

109 269 55 91 524 72,953
3 2 0 2 7 1,342
0 0 1 0 1 197
3 2 1 2 8 1,539
0 8 8 0 16 1,244
1 3 2 10 16 4,499
2,292 1,102 597 3,427 7,418 692,769
3 0 0 1 4 954
0 0 0 0 0 1,381
421 687 175 199 1,482 86,958
50 10 4 115 1 79 128,989
2 0 0 0 2 10,818
5 3 0 0 8 3,604
65 453 220 52 790 357,052

COuNTrY Or lOCaTION CrOaTIa CYPrus deNMarK dOMINICa dOMINICaN rePuBlIC easT TIMOr eCuadOr eGYPT esTONIa fIJI fINlaNd fraNCe GerMaNY GhaNa

6 112 0 51 166 32 6 5 10 51 5 8 0 0 10 462
15 116 3 154 80 96 132 10 14 21 22 0 0 0 6 669
0 11 0 7 8 39 1 4 7 6 0 0 0 0 1 84
1,001 1,384 37 9,710 1,245 1,289 754 1,166 4,405 1,332 23 10 43 261 129 22,789
31,363 53,162 3,530 58,747 34,865 25,745 48,383 25,326 44,390 34,156 5,443 6,736 736 25,861 8,455 406,898
74 556 0 4,039 166 349 286 117 221 516 11 3 0 69 8 6,415
3,895 35,609 5,255 40,761 19,246 9,104 32,529 10,123 23,309 13,577 2,898 3,297 744 7,101 2,137 209,585
296 3,297 0 8,774 1,922 977 892 137 161 534 626 0 2 200 15 1 7,833
29 141 0 108 85 40 79 14 31 0 0 13 0 0 5 545
50 173 0 859 126 533 289 198 80 1,002 3 4 0 47 52 3,416
0 13 0 193 921 708 85 52 362 14 0 0 4 0 42 2,394
91 44 27 251 146 116 1,555 80 40 73 69 53 52 236 22 2,855
275 1,677 27 1,058 2,426 419 2,301 141 233 187 134 16 59 127 70 9,150
731 4,767 16 205 94 81 155 341 217 482 14 0 0 227 41 7,371
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3 0 0 2 3 13 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 10 36
5 11 13 0 0 36 4 7 0 9 17 2 5 0 109
3 0 2 0 0 4 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 14
76 658 188 19 7 52 11 80 15 226 2 64 212 6 1,616
2,904 9,768 882 948 386 1,025 2,585 1,731 8,419 12,856 874 4,125 3,390 5,088 54,981
2 11 0 0 0 2 4 5 0 5 0 8 37 5 79
1,860 2,385 3,880 1,164 647 1,546 1,059 3,218 860 4,777 2,437 2,815 13,672 514 40,834
132 71 16 11 15 921 2 13 31 51 4 29 199 48 1,543
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 15
5 9 3 0 2 63 2 0 1 24 0 10 9 13 141
6 2 7 4 2 0 1 8 4 2 2 13 15 0 66
24 13 3 1 1 34 14 8 24 8 0 14 1,925 1 2,070
389 36 30 31 9 346 95 36 6 11 6 22 47 17 1,081
0 2 7 13 0 17 2 43 4 5 1,264 7 84 0 1,448

64 8 5 60 137
254 25 0 17 296
15 5 0 9 29
53 42 50 24 169
17,446 1,972 2,151 5,105 26,674
45 21 0 138 204
12,600 659 4,486 7,138 24,883
4,401 149 3 682 5,235
144 3 0 7 154
30 6 0 56 92
16 0 5 5 26
4,509 33 32 89 4,663
2,672 1,192 105 168 4,137
1 2 0 6 9
10 34 5 11 10 2 72
1 0 17 4 0 8 30
4 2 4 5 0 3 18
47 110 439 203 9 103 911
678 2,024 2,403 1,115 1,131 980 8,331
1 8 8 4 0 0 21
90 1,156 2,800 199 208 346 4,799
0 103 48 16 0 60 227
21 0 49 367 0 82 519
1 0 6 0 0 3 10
19 3 33 1 18 17 91
0 4 32 1 0 6 43
10 16 53 27 5 31 142
0 12 2 1 0 3 18

4 0 0 0 4 711
0 0 11 6 1 7 1,121
1 3 0 0 4 149
150 33 6 22 211 25,696
3,484 4,711 1,592 925 10,712 507,596
0 0 1 0 1 6,720
1,059 4,007 1,432 566 7,064 287,165
0 58 19 48 125 24,963
0 9 0 0 9 1,242
0 84 0 0 84 3,743
0 0 0 0 0 2,577
6 34 7 14 61 9,692
21 16 10 0 47 14,557
13 4 0 0 1 7 8,863

COuNTrY Or lOCaTION GIBralTar GreeCe GreNada GuaM GuaTeMala GuYaNa hONduras hONG KONG INdIa INdONesIa IrelaNd Israel ITalY JaMaICa

0 30 0 75 250 150 0 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 3 51 7
493 2,580 47 2,995 1,146 1,734 3,652 263 832 991 693 93 96 3,119 122 18,856
69 874 4 4,828 1,338 582 694 337 668 735 12 2 0 221 21 10,385
777 6,826 262 7,375 5,680 17,380 5,747 1,829 6,048 5,658 1,386 840 49 1,360 567 61,784
53 264 29 2,521 243 104 1,409 414 261 196 21 0 0 415 226 6,156
401 1,077 58 3,646 674 562 738 392 931 711 93 4 17 787 58 10,149
0 64 3 242 71 23 291 45 50 57 12 0 0 76 35 969
956 16,100 685 12,695 7,071 2,666 7,769 2,778 5,613 10,372 1,511 283 132 4,079 1,133 73,843
21,250 43,666 2,225 8,763 5,319 5,359 7,431 9,216 11,677 26,182 808 316 499 5,157 1,643 149,511
973 21,139 429 12,584 2,080 986 7,439 4,191 1,936 11,781 320 35 168 19,388 1,147 84,596
0 10 0 30 20 20 10 10 0 20 0 2 0 0 0 122
1,075 4,500 0 2,450 3,000 2,000 785 35 3,395 645 0 78 0 270 0 18,233
805 960 50 1,372 587 537 651 417 465 267 218 33 75 108 102 6,647
6,709 26,004 588 44,077 8,909 4,449 17,247 5,231 17,954 9,091 811 274 58 4,161 1,052 146,615
56
57
0 0 0 0 0 12 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 21
60 80 92 8 70 906 656 114 28 81 14 361 684 102 3,256
35 433 18 0 1 42 4 3 80 417 0 36 85 10 1,164
215 303 145 75 44 260 79 155 88 205 56 463 610 213 2,911
0 112 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 110 0 17 0 15 264
25 68 196 25 3 32 39 41 21 32 19 15 92 15 623
0 16 5 1 3 26 4 3 0 21 0 0 0 0 79
889 547 889 274 543 531 893 679 337 438 519 2,263 2,716 996 12,514
824 788 907 441 185 177 191 763 1,259 1,503 323 3,780 1,503 407 13,051
168 290 110 36 36 2,738 46 159 189 414 2 932 965 81 6,166
0 0 0 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 8
895 77 15 38 0 1,270 753 10 0 48 10 0 52 0 3,168
231 129 63 35 122 172 115 148 35 62 12 139 140 200 1,603
106 1,242 109 286 222 291 223 193 290 967 40 475 904 94 5,442

0 0 0 0 0
41,080 389 480 921 42,870
132 9 35 36 212
12,395 375 1,438 964 15,1 72
29 4 0 3 36
224 98 80 80 482
50 10 0 0 60
5,057 1,260 847 544 7,708
19,966 650 2,546 31,445 54,607
18,558 754 11 2,539 21,862
0 0 0 0 0
5,500 0 0 150 5,650
1,796 221 245 143 2,405
1,578 1,218 531 404 3,731
0 6 4 0 0 0 10
3 103 377 51 10 93 637
0 10 29 9 1 1 50
81 474 430 256 14 131 1,386
2 10 52 16 0 9 89
25 24 11 14 0 5 79
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
153 601 3,024 164 39 123 4,104
97 975 1,134 496 75 510 3,287
37 684 231 28 3 38 1,021
0 0 2 0 0 1 3
0 5 35 7 0 12 59
18 70 134 25 59 40 346
248 154 1,433 347 42 114 2,338

0 0 0 0 0 548
19 74 23 6 122 65,741
73 7 0 6 86 11,897
97 566 7 52 722 81,975
2 0 12 0 14 6,559
150 46 2 14 212 11,545
0 3 16 1 20 1,128
186 71 213 96 566 98,735
1,013 1,295 704 226 3,238 223,694
31 549 50 183 813 114,458
0 0 0 0 0 133
0 71 0 67 138 27,248
82 78 63 91 314 11,315
990 1,119 92 285 2,486 160,612

COuNTrY Or lOCaTION JaPaN JOrdaN KeNYa luxeMBOurG MadaGasCar MalaYsIa MaldIves MalTa MaurITIus MexICO MOzaMBIque NeTherlaNd aNTIlles NeTherlaNd aNTIlles NeTherlaNd aNTIlles

Bonaire
CuraCao
saBa
604 1,436 1,048 1,391 768 1,022 1,686 205 362 1,767 109 26 1 417 29 10,871
0 3 0 0 0 5 0 0 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 53
13,213 14,362 8,973 7,954 6,860 7,707 8,887 7,008 4,171 7,058 942 655 579 12,348 1,712 102,429
0 1 0 2 25 2 41 1 0 23 0 0 0 0 0 95
18 131 0 300 24 42 64 229 42 221 0 0 0 0 0 1,071
2,763 7,826 831 4,438 2,213 1,786 1,749 1,558 878 3,680 60 9 21 1,294 187 29,293
32 207 3 384 199 285 162 79 61 230 26 0 0 125 32 1,825
0 12 0 290 230 320 130 10 30 65 0 0 0 0 6 1,093
125 70 0 100 90 100 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 491
6,940 34,264 1,304 48,152 17,888 9,349 58,935 6,619 30,255 16,358 1,307 3,547 512 9,503 2,943 247,876
9 87 0 165 18 517 137 29 15 34 0 0 0 0 5 1,016
2 8 0 55 1,597 102 1 30 179 17 0 0 0 2 0 1,993
10 8 0 29 26 72 0 16 56 3 0 0 0 0 3 223
30 21 0 756 134 29 559 50 59 124 0 1 0 17 5 1,785
58
59
57 141 288 32 3 422 24 21 32 6 200 95 1,377 1 2,699
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2,595 3,304 2,731 341 865 501 743 609 896 561 776 2,966 1,934 2,156 20,978
0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
0 0 0 1 0 31 79 5 0 0 0 16 102 0 234
195 282 932 24 28 1,560 217 138 234 177 15 454 1,750 138 6,144
1 34 35 0 2 189 20 19 22 39 1 29 44 31 466
0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
35 150 0 0 50 35 0 30 0 0 2 2 20 2 326
890 2,674 705 288 329 856 359 454 655 1,464 242 900 2,634 337 12,787
3 51 1 1 4 15 2 91 0 6 0 8 6 0 188
1 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 6 13 0 40
0 0 0 0 0 68 23 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 93
0 16 41 0 1 12 12 1 0 17 0 0 32 2 134

6,245 260 11 257 6,773
0 0 0 1 1
11,247 1,972 4,024 2,578 19,821
0 5 1 0 6
44 0 0 32 76
18,091 459 153 850 19,553
536 11 0 94 641
50 10 0 20 80
0 0 0 25 25
51,909 1,224 1,534 2,545 57,212
52 2 0 19 73
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 31 0 0 31
26 7 96 6 56 9 200
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
150 672 2,352 290 57 467 3,988
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 5 13 0 0 1 19
13 122 325 53 3 46 562
11 12 137 4 0 6 1 70
1 2 65 10 0 12 90
0 15 0 0 0 10 25
308 1,122 1,946 531 274 435 4,616
0 3 40 0 0 2 45
5 1 130 1 0 8 145
0 0 38 0 0 0 38
5 0 2 3 0 0 10

16 205 15 98 334 20,877
0 0 0 0 0 54
2,645 1,439 835 554 5,473 152,689
0 0 0 0 0 105
2 0 1 0 3 1,403
7 284 13 23 327 55,879
0 27 50 0 77 3,1 79
10 0 0 0 10 1,276
0 0 0 0 0 867
845 2,014 789 302 3,950 326,441
3 0 0 0 3 1,325
0 0 0 0 0 2,1 78
0 1 0 0 1 355
0 0 2 0 2 1,962

COuNTrY Or lOCaTION NeTherlaNd aNTIlles NeTherlaNds New zealaNd NICaraGua N. MarIaNa IslaNds N. MarIaNa IslaNds N. MarIaNa IslaNds N. MarIaNa IslaNds OMaN PaNaMa PaPua New GuINea PhIlIPPINes POlaNd POrTuGal

total
rota
saipan
tinian
total
42 37 0 840 1,757 203 560 96 294 144 0 1 0 19 8 4,001
100 123 2 208 237 208 64 20 94 230 146 26 0 57 36 1,551
46 101 11 73 288 290 554 73 77 375 35 2 5 160 22 2,112
18,464 91,452 1,326 104,324 15,453 11,635 44,860 13,000 18,471 11,624 380 1,013 45 16,277 2,548 350,872
189 601 4 611 264 1,354 187 65 434 224 27 32 0 70 11 4,073
373 1,183 47 1,160 574 1,435 914 197 976 1,114 171 125 22 673 72 9,036
193 228 3 309 248 1,444 331 54 426 125 6 148 5 190 39 3,749
755 2,012 54 2,080 1,086 4,233 1,432 316 1,836 1,463 204 305 27 933 122 16,858
0 27 0 82 47 56 40 4 33 23 30 0 0 20 0 362
0 12 1 163 31 46 34 38 36 4 0 3 0 7 2 377
0 173 0 289 183 328 61 3 8 17 0 0 0 0 6 1,068
31,107 109,385 4,921 21,041 18,234 15,762 20,568 41,843 31,620 76,240 3,903 2,904 3,322 50,267 14,005 445,122
69 118 0 1,275 2,920 2,609 395 25 40 19 2 0 0 22 17 7,511
10 36 0 75 450 44 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 619
60
61
1 16 41 0 1 100 35 1 0 17 0 6 47 2 267
4 8 0 0 3 5 0 5 0 9 9 4 16 39 102
0 1 0 1 0 89 306 2 1 1 0 3 25 8 437
34 2,283 623 207 89 298 142 543 319 2,493 7 1,593 923 29 9,583
3 16 2 4 2 31 2 5 4 6 0 11 27 2 115
37 44 34 7 5 74 24 15 24 39 1 17 77 26 424
8 51 36 0 1 16 17 25 10 7 4 8 59 8 250
48 111 72 11 8 121 43 45 38 52 5 36 163 36 789
0 0 9 6 3 6 0 35 0 11 0 22 23 0 115
0 13 6 1 0 3 0 1 0 12 0 0 2 0 38
5 0 0 5 0 0 1 8 0 0 0 5 8 0 32
3,278 5,846 3,259 3,951 1,939 5,418 4,219 5,524 3,894 4,497 1,823 12,043 117,110 3,314 1 76,115
6 8 2 1 3 0 9 8 12 11 4 19 14 0 97
4 4 2 8 1 3 60 25 5 0 1 5 15 8 141

0 31 0 0 31
454 38 0 127 619
669 19 0 25 713
6,934 760 5,621 3,060 16,375
438 16 39 71 564
4,269 92 180 308 4,849
764 78 18 213 1,073
5,471 186 237 592 6,486
10 2 0 0 12
0 11 0 0 11
0 5 0 0 5
56,376 11,001 11,339 11,148 89,864
107 96 17 67 287
300 0 2 41 343
10 1 170 4 0 8 193
0 6 46 1 0 4 57
0 3 175 8 0 9 195
77 619 396 85 21 303 1,501
0 6 24 10 0 1 41
4 169 55 71 15 15 329
0 88 15 7 1 3 114
4 263 94 88 16 19 484
0 0 2 0 0 1 3
0 2 3 0 0 0 5
0 72 0 0 0 0 72
1,422 4,735 5,506 1,832 1,503 3,152 18,150
6 13 1 4 0 20 44
6 0 20 10 1 207 244

0 1 2 0 3 4,495
59 0 0 30 89 2,418
3 3 0 2 8 3,465
987 2,352 899 588 4,826 383,157
8 17 0 0 25 4,818
23 90 12 18 143 14,781
27 22 5 35 89 5,275
58 129 17 53 257 24,874
0 0 0 0 0 492
0 3 0 7 10 441
0 0 0 0 0 1,1 77
1,797 25,069 2,233 4,912 34,011 763,262
3 4 0 0 7 7,946
4 0 0 0 4 1,351

COuNTrY Or lOCaTION PuerTO rICO qaTar rePuBlIC Of KOrea russIa saINT KITTs & NevIs saINT KITTs & NevIs saINT KITTs & NevIs saINT luCIa saINT vINCeNT & The GreNadINes saINT vINCeNT & The GreNadINes saudI araBIa sCOTlaNd seYChelles sINGaPOre

neVis
saint kitts
total
the grenadines
total
9,862 28,459 2,116 35,623 30,856 18,577 45,754 7,903 51,227 21,709 2,527 2,340 292 19,667 3,023 279,935
84 945 0 607 40 426 0 18 193 39 0 0 0 0 0 2,352
71 6,825 281 4,592 3,969 2,614 3,838 900 1,434 4,182 968 66 42 1,201 520 31,503
10 103 8 109 266 113 369 38 76 339 140 36 0 281 9 1,897
525 655 356 5,695 741 833 1,676 583 1,217 916 42 23 1 190 108 13,561
72 506 0 4,348 319 175 2,094 426 1,506 997 21 1 0 138 66 10,669
597 1,161 356 10,043 1,060 1,008 3,770 1,009 2,723 1,913 63 24 1 328 174 24,230
0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
387 894 12 1,695 986 747 435 293 401 517 4 53 0 112 69 6,605
387 894 12 1,695 986 747 435 293 401 517 4 53 0 112 69 6,605
266 1,156 86 1,686 924 1,312 644 213 502 603 402 9 1 154 67 8,025
0 1,538 0 2,721 0 1,552 483 0 0 1,292 0 0 0 0 0 7,586
0 12 0 14 3 4 0 1 0 6 0 0 0 0 1 41
2,894 41,271 991 22,672 5,817 2,552 12,406 4,490 7,919 26,694 896 222 435 19,994 3,452 152,705
62
63
344 1,281 578 103 705 579 535 382 281 1,479 214 2,439 1,303 358 10,581
0 0 0 0 1 43 16 4 3 1 0 1 13 0 82
763 175 931 666 231 1,087 551 1,039 207 387 726 2,767 2,847 1,957 14,334
0 1 8 0 5 0 0 1 3 6 0 4 5 0 33
72 305 81 18 36 78 7 2,711 77 498 8 58 363 46 4,358
16 202 133 4 112 25 37 56 30 128 12 26 484 27 1,292
88 507 214 22 148 103 44 2,767 107 626 20 84 847 73 5,650
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 135 63 25 12 117 8 13 21 290 1 21 61 0 780
13 135 63 25 12 117 8 13 21 290 1 21 61 0 780
18 31 16 12 13 5,028 42 1 2 32 0 39 203 70 5,507
0 98 58 0 0 317 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 473
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
717 730 294 344 170 1,408 592 928 913 570 120 8,662 3,702 1,489 20,639

34,102 1,132 4,703 1,797 41,734
708 4 0 0 712
12,713 983 49 1,397 15,142
547 23 0 50 620
47 68 2 38 155
283 43 1 6 333
330 111 3 44 488
0 0 0 0 0
148 20 6 49 223
148 20 6 49 223
678 59 61 180 978
654 0 0 0 654
42 0 0 6 48
42,620 2,724 2,345 1,096 48,785
249 475 2,914 1,218 64 846 5,766
0 1 62 0 0 0 63
99 204 1,468 112 44 263 2,190
1 1 3 1 0 5 11
31 1 292 43 1 40 408
18 3 117 21 2 8 169
49 4 409 64 3 48 577
0 0 0 0 0 1 1
29 30 66 15 1 11 152
29 30 66 15 1 11 152
1 28 104 9 7 15 164
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
400 855 5,541 639 126 162 7,723

965 1,373 1,023 567 3,928 341,944
0 31 0 8 39 3,248
32 31 33 33 129 63,298
0 0 9 14 23 2,584
26 15 0 2 43 18,525
3 37 0 5 45 12,508
29 52 0 7 88 31,033
0 0 0 0 0 3
26 34 1 12 73 7,833
26 34 1 12 73 7,833
2 21 0 2 25 14,699
0 0 0 0 0 8,713
0 0 0 0 0 90
220 166 130 1,521 2,037 231,889

COuNTrY Or lOCaTION sINT MaarTeN, duTCh wesT INdIes slOvaKIa sOlOMON IslaNds sOuTh afrICa sPaIN swedeN swITzerlaNd TaIwaN TaNzaNIa ThaIlaNd TrINIdad & TOBaGO TrINIdad & TOBaGO TrINIdad & TOBaGO TurKeY

toBago
trinidad
total
683 1,668 143 2,091 2,581 3,228 1,975 503 2,414 1,507 164 248 43 1,261 191 18,700
0 100 0 300 10 25 100 10 0 20 0 0 0 0 10 575
4 10 0 306 169 821 0 8 4 104 0 0 0 1 1 1,428
365 5,399 138 4,208 1,324 555 7,459 1,120 1,098 4,787 129 41 20 3,752 336 30,731
219 822 23 532 388 557 601 148 237 512 273 60 2 126 70 4,570
5 5 0 0 10 10 5 1 10 10 2 0 1 0 1 60
90 122 6 213 971 270 44 32 172 65 4 21 0 25 21 2,056
15 8,330 69 3,233 7,265 1,157 4,291 1,152 1,144 556 262 36 38 1,566 1,592 30,706
300 452 125 673 260 140 234 493 144 290 80 35 5 237 82 3,550
1,526 7,118 27 2,873 2,303 3,485 8,269 1,074 2,595 3,041 1,605 2 2 3,428 247 37,595
682 1,619 47 4,869 1,918 701 2,832 451 1,340 1,993 18 15 3 246 124 16,858
1,722 5,526 93 12,003 8,060 2,490 9,810 1,888 11,305 6,668 192 59 39 1,477 444 61,776
2,404 7,145 140 16,872 9,978 3,191 12,642 2,339 12,645 8,661 210 74 42 1,723 568 78,634 0
4 65 0 85 72 3 6 13 51 2 0 2 0 0 19 322
64
65
36 65 111 13 41 53 73 36 7 46 29 91 252 55 908
2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 40 0 2 0 49
0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5
332 244 117 39 127 1,827 165 123 122 304 72 420 2,341 714 6,947
120 67 51 12 62 482 101 58 15 33 14 25 121 40 1,201
0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5
12 2 5 3 0 3 4 7 2 1 1 9 3 3 55
98 21 6,056 17 7 137 229 695 71 11 3 178 565 100 8,188
105 127 125 78 50 1,190 24 183 30 32 15 97 287 57 2,400
61 310 2,231 92 131 1,385 356 328 199 490 64 848 3,693 794 10,982
83 215 53 5 18 30 10 28 61 153 9 16 283 10 974
116 239 208 57 33 216 30 138 88 349 30 289 523 84 2,400
199 454 261 62 51 246 40 166 149 502 39 305 806 94 3,374 0
26 0 2 0 3 13 0 3 2 10 1 12 14 0 86

556 95 100 60 811
200 2 0 10 212
0 0 0 1 1
2,756 373 38 306 3,473
1,887 79 7 226 2,199
0 0 0 0 0
2,646 72 6 71 2,795
2,732 706 13 343 3,794
347 26 20 87 480
3,818 1,839 40 616 6,313
263 102 46 47 458
954 614 312 475 2,355
1,217 716 358 522 2,813 0
80 7 5 5 97
14 49 303 119 2 21 508
1 20 50 0 0 2 73
1 2 8 0 0 0 11
50 69 342 149 37 258 905
3 7 114 23 23 55 225
0 1 0 0 0 0 1
18 9 39 7 1 1 75
41 92 898 8 3 57 1,099
0 76 78 29 31 56 270
8 239 869 14 1 47 1,1 78
29 10 119 30 3 15 206
48 49 598 92 7 60 854
77 59 717 122 10 75 1,060 0
0 33 3 1 0 12 49

142 87 2 35 266 21,193
0 0 0 0 0 909
0 1 0 0 1 1,446
405 157 15 6 583 42,639
84 43 31 126 284 8,479
0 0 0 0 0 66
5 0 0 2 7 4,988
8 22 91 10 131 43,918
32 28 0 4 64 6,764
19 41 20 30 110 56,1 78
20 70 18 3 111 18,607
145 316 36 62 559 67,944
165 386 54 65 670 86,551
2 0 0 1 3 557

COuNTrY Or lOCaTION uKraINe uNITed araB eMIraTes uNITed KINGdOM uNITed sTaTes uNITed sTaTes vIrGIN IslaNds uNITed sTaTes vIrGIN IslaNds uNITed sTaTes vIrGIN IslaNds uNITed sTaTes vIrGIN IslaNds uruGuaY vaNuaTu veNezuela vIeTNaM wales TOTal

st. Croix
st. John
st. thomas
total
5 28 0 45 22 0 0 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 8 11 7
270 551 5 1,041 346 2,340 618 80 447 353 178 3 6 171 13 6,422
141 3,944 68 5,842 363 4,503 3,302 821 241 1,984 77 29 79 139 31 21,564
95,160 252,694 32,224 222,670 153,577 167,727 355,770 54,398 170,700 402,595 37,333 10,430 16,847 153,520 41,420 2,167,065
773 1,867 208 1,628 4,616 2,648 1,968 712 1,355 1,046 109 93 11 631 149 1 7,814
139 875 41 707 383 220 1,191 173 381 183 52 18 4 450 76 4,893
1,325 2,671 63 1,163 1,904 851 2,368 360 1,509 1,196 62 27 62 1,135 86 14,782
2,237 5,413 312 3,498 6,903 3,719 5,527 1,245 3,245 2,425 223 138 77 2,216 311 37,489
1,050 3,900 463 677 316 149 1,577 300 359 1,970 9 3 2 776 135 11,686
710 600 0 100 25 75 5 5 0 70 0 5 0 0 5 1,600
22 592 0 343 151 156 311 32 180 187 0 40 0 42 20 2,076
0 8 0 2 0 0 0 1 6 9 0 0 0 0 0 26
9 1,230 19 4,775 280 1,596 541 570 63 644 6 4 3 74 18 9,832
300,031 980,067 75,168 1,094,921 440,756 429,167 882,936 237,283 524,853 853,633 77,434 40,243 29,339 433,376 101,830 6,501,037
66
67
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3
40 9 10 12 0 86 25 38 44 77 0 69 245 29 684
19 251 164 5 25 5,959 13 7,274 4 60 15 231 559 45 14,624
15,876 8,299 10,161 5,859 1,966 45,317 9,713 6,385 3,786 7,338 2,130 22,500 55,263 17,368 211,961
18 31 29 69 16 228 7 192 39 29 9 232 245 46 1,190
19 80 56 15 13 123 19 71 9 99 7 99 466 84 1,160
15 24 30 14 22 85 9 10 14 27 87 211 162 48 758
52 135 115 98 51 436 35 273 62 155 103 542 873 178 3,108
47 28 11 11 2 45 19 29 9 7 1 259 118 25 611
0 5 0 0 2 12 0 1 0 1 0 2 20 0 43
0 3 135 1 34 31 0 2 6 50 0 2 3 120 387
0 0 1 0 0 5 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 11
5 93 70 6 2 1,514 16 7,583 0 11 0 53 226 33 9,612
38,444 65,872 49,970 16,820 10,812 92,412 27,951 46,899 25,456 48,541 15,326 79,252 241,896 42,125 801,776

690 12 0 11 713
1,001 22 0 71 1,094
2,808 61 44 48 2,961
1,181,589 16,257 73,155 36,592 1,307,593
211 107 107 60 485
453 50 41 16 560
1,468 107 382 597 2,554
2,132 264 530 673 3,599
1,145 51 810 219 2,225
0 0 0 0 0
270 0 1 136 407
23 0 0 4 27
720 4 11 7 742
1,892,526 56,477 140,856 136,956 2,226,815
0 2 0 0 0 0 2
0 5 166 11 1 6 189
61 6 87 79 7 25 265
1,633 5,716 48,138 9,826 545 10,365 76,223
24 25 193 108 7 79 436
2 5 60 12 3 7 89
10 25 217 160 1 14 427
36 55 470 280 11 100 952
4 40 169 18 6 4 241
3 14 22 22 0 8 69
8 28 50 8 1 12 107
0 7 0 0 0 1 8
1 9 35 3 1 14 63
7,134 26,205 108,322 21,613 4,772 21,858 189,904

0 0 0 0 0 835
1 7 0 2 10 8,399
6 5 10 23 44 39,458
7,282 5,195 2,704 10,589 25,770 3,788,612
195 110 5 22 332 20,257
1 6 6 3 16 6,718
80 54 3 8 145 18,666
276 170 14 33 493 45,641
257 107 7 27 398 15,161
0 26 0 0 26 1,738
0 29 0 3 32 3,009
0 0 0 2 2 74
2 3 0 1 6 20,255
27,366 55,350 14,555 26,318 123,589 9,843,121
People/Pounds/Miles International
total numBer oF Countries and loCations: 114
laNd COuNTrY Or lOCaTION IslaNd uNderwaTer/waTerCrafT TOTal laNd uNderwaTer/waTerCrafT TOTal
people 130 917 53 9 40
pounds 2,204 7,963 75 24 2,646 890 6,324 156,700 163,914 88 2,166 3,102 44 3,819 4,800 174,968 1,170 75 1,245 968 661
miles 3.0 5.0 3.8 1.2 0.9 3.5 23.0 8.0 28.5 0.6 26.2 1.5 1.2 9.0 1.2 1,871.5 1.5 1.0 2.5 0.5 2.2 915.7 0.1 9.0 11.1 69.8 19.0 36.0 0.3 18.7 40.7 1.2 81.0 13.0 2.2 5.0 2.0 13.1 1.1 -
Bags 112 73 166 25 264 454 550 3 337 219 131 12 143 623 9,026 4,274 172 85 1,262 5,023 9,599 48 87 38 242 3 -
people 35 92 52 19 7 26 33 181 37 101 222 33 12 42 103 2 52 15 57 21 260 56 237 55 2 71 38 224 29
pounds 77 241 478 310 700 1,010 132 432 176 255 12,718 661 22 639 1,543 162 1,012 110 485 128 5,000 5,024 9,123 4,740 68 11,277 860 4,012 220
miles 0.1 2.6 3.1 0.5 0.5 0.6 1.0 1.2 0.6 6.6 0.2 0.7 1.8 1.2 1.2 2.8 0.3 0.1 0.5 0.1 1.2 1.6 0.6 0.6 1.5 0.8 24.0 0.6
Bags 50 31 117 15 277 3 35 26 500 61 49 1 5 20 108 -
people 130 917 35 145 61 40 188 19 320 1,716
pounds 2,204 7,963 77 316 503 2,646 890 310 7,024 156,700
miles 3.0 5.0 0.1 6.4 4.4 0.9 3.5 23.5 8.0 35.0 1.2 27.2 1.5 2.5 9.0 1.2 1,872.1 1.5 1.0 2.5 0.5 2.2 922.3 0.3 9.0 11.1 70.5 20.8 1.2 37.6 2.8 0.6 0.1 18.7 41.2 1.3 82.1 14.6 2.9 5.7 1.5 2.8 37.1 1.1 0.6
Bags 112 50 31 73 166 25 264 571 550 18 337 219 131 12 143 623 9,303 4,274 175 85 35 1,262 5,049 500 9,660 97 88 5 58 350 3 -
COuNTrY Or lOCaTION
IslaNd
people 1,982 112 2,967 17 134 11 4,208 15,135 3,045 3,457 314 2,774 1,067 6,517 90 1,495 150 30 11,998 39 832
pounds 8,503 2,072 17,797 529 2,359 132 41,404 80,877 17,211 18,508 4,898 29,170 13,891 21,402 441 7,166 2,337 220 195,335 584 12,787 436 436 152 479 110,816 14,561 999 5,147 2,572 8,718 220 1,500 492 600 1,500 525,473 6,907 220
miles 28.8 1.3 19.5 0.1 7.7 0.6 27.0 179.2 22.0 12.9 12.8 44.9 6.5 152.3 0.6 10.0 0.9 1.2 139.0 1.6 8.7 1.2 1.2 2.8 1.3 89.0 0.2 1.1 0.1 1.2 6.3 1.4 1.4 1.2 1.2 148.7 2.4 0.2
Bags 791 117 1,680 130 2,424 1,472 1,958 1,930 243 2,486 111 2,190 8 1,694 42 26 26 22 21 7,234
people 73 68 69 16 65 306 12 295 210 3 8 18 26 17 325 65 35 10 107 12 70 52 122 155 23 3,762
pounds 2,734 573 190 1,102 703 4,405 165 5,291 5,884 24 2 2,646 55 20 661 1,378 772 110 2,659 11 375 44 419 2,008 681 87,025
miles 1.9 0.6 0.1 0.1 2.6 5.3 1.2 1.9 21.6 0.7 0.1 0.3 0.1 2.5 0.9 0.1 0.6 3.8 0.1 0.5 0.5 1.0 2.0 1.1 0.5
Bags 205 1 30 36 185 150 93 67 6 4 40 40 44 5 4,333
people 2,055 180 3,036 17 134 27 4,273 15,135 3,351 12 3,752 524 2,774 1,067 3 6,525 18 26 107 1,820 215 35 40 12,105 51 832 70 52 29 151 196 94 8,497 110
pounds 11,237 2,645 17,987 529 2,359 1,235 42,107 80,877 21,616 165 23,799 10,782 29,170 13,891 24 21,405 2,646 55 461 7,827 3,715 772 331 197,994 595 12,787 375 44 436 855 2,161 1,160 197,841 14,561 999 5,147 2,572 8,718 2,502 1,500 492 600 1,500
miles 30.8 1.9 19.6 0.1 7.7 0.7 30.0 179.2 26.9 1.2 14.9 34.4 44.9 6.5 0.7 152.3 0.1 0.3 0.7 10.9 1.8 0.1 1.9 143.2 1.7 8.7 0.5 0.5 1.2 2.1 4.8 2.5 89.5 0.2 0.0 1.1 0.1 1.2 7.2 1.4 1.4 1.2 1.2 149.9 5.3 1.0
Bags 996 117 1,681 130 30 2,460 1,472 2,143 2,080 336 2,486 111 2,190 67 8 1,700 46 40 26 66 66 26 11,567 165 77 242 8 18 19,774 6 88
American Samoa Argentina Aruba
Greece Grenada Guam Guatemala Guyana Honduras Hong Kong India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kenya Lithuania Luxembourg Madagascar Malaysia Maldives Malta Mauritius Mexico Mozambique Namibia Netherland Antilles Bonaire CuraCao saBa total Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Nigeria N. Mariana Islands rota saipan tinian total Oman Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal
68
Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas aBaCo andros grand Bahama island nassau total Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands tortola Virgin gorda total Brunei Bulgaria Canada Cape Verde Channel Islands Chile China Colombia Cook Islands Costa Rica Croatia Cyprus Denmark Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt Estonia Fiji Finland France Germany Ghana Gibraltar rarotonga
69
188 313 1,716 2,217 23 794 312 15 478 170 12,116 90 22 112 56 25
2,243 164,924 56 975 312 52 478 170 12,217 90 22 112 56 25 220 2,598 3,102 220 3,819 4,800 175,223 1,170 75 1,245 968 661
28,816 219,841 20 295 4,053 1,889 251 3,255 30 718 27,601 10 9,379 499 56 123 136 286 150 227 778 100,415 3,423 107,433 114,704 331 45,754 226,878 13 91,853 14,222 7,826 1,352 656 16,437 5,711 -
29,038 232,559 53 295 4,053 1,901 293 103 888 778 100,415 3,445 108,072 1,543
29 29 41 71 4,735 110 357 683 226 1,266 2 80 53 40 100 145,352 117 30
3,257 114,865 52 45 57 718 27,622 270 9,435 736 111 125 71 174 510 150 29 1,012 441 485 45,754 227,005 5,013 96,877 23,345 12,566 1,420 11,277 1,515 20,450 5,711 220
165 77 242 18 19,513 6 30
33 381 20 48
2,282 4,430 496 6,451
0.9 1.2 2.9 0.8
8 261 58
357 683 226 1,266 35 80 53 40 100
145,733 529,903 137 78 7,403 6,671
People/Pounds/Miles International
total numBer oF Countries and loCations: 114
laNd COuNTrY Or lOCaTION IslaNd uNderwaTer/waTerCrafT TOTal
norTh pACIfIC gyre
people 12,368 45
pounds 193,573 654
miles 248.8 0.6 17.5 100.3 9.2 9.2 2.5 1.3 3.8 0.2 1.5 13.9 0.9 542.6 1.1 0.6 0.1 322.6 12.4 1.3 23.3 16.1 1.5 11.6 5.7 10.0 14.7 1.1 0.6 0.7 55.4
Bags 1,289 375 351 1 352 123 123 245 5 3,808 248 50 4 23,081 24 16 661 284 402 385 1,189 1,574 7 126 152
people 190 68 155 2 10 12 3 20 20 346 10 12 251 167 15 94 96 27 212 15 15 39 15 210 114
pounds 8,600 264 25,587 100 100 200 18 346 346 5,914 551 399 1,470 2,528 143 3,188 1,148 551 2,866 425 425 275 99 1,097 40,951
miles 9.2 0.1 1.8 0.8 0.8 0.1 0.1 0.1 1.0 0.2 0.2 0.3 4.6 0.2 2.0 0.5 1.3 0.7 0.7 0.9 0.6 0.1 2.0 186.2 1.0 1.0 1.2 1.1 0.1 339.0
Bags 30 1 5 6 1 56 10 26 18 12 64 70 22 488 21 21 123 58 1,133 57 57 34 10 9,063
people 12,558 113
pounds 202,173 918
miles 258.0 0.7 19.3 100.3 9.9 9.9 0.1 2.6 1.3 3.9 0.2 2.4 13.9 0.9 542.6 1.1 0.8 0.3 322.9 17.0 1.5 25.3 16.6 1.5 12.9 6.3 10.0 16.3 2.0 1.2 0.8 57.4
Bags 1,289 405 352 6 358 1 123 123 301 5 3,808 248 60 30 23,099 36 80 731 306 890 406 1,189 1,595 7 249 210
Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Korea
3,862 603,109 80 neVis saint kitts total 328 311 639 the grenadines saint VinCent total 181 225 406 15 585 767 8 6,356 643 20 1 12,496 379 161 26 4,161 387 2,545 toBago trinidad total 368 1,977 2,345 14 11 449 3,097 241,002 st. Croix st. John st. thomas total 355 177 368 900 501 800 762 300 862 600,427 439 7,214 2,205 9,419 3,538 5,936 9,474 66 4,583 10,814 26 53,442 10,189 2,756 55 183,807 2,932 17,294 672 17,464 8,356 12,308 4,298 18,204 22,502 37 132 908 27,015 4,512,032 2,537 2,255 3,189 7,981 8,769 22,046 50,355 4,500 10,278 8,284,229
4,017 628,696 80 330 321 651 3 201 225 426 15 931 767 8 6,356 643 30 13 12,747 546 176 120 4,257 414 2,757 383 1,977 2,360 53 26 659 3,211 245,317 412 177 368 957 501 820 871 316 862 615,407 439 7,314 2,305 9,619 18 3,884 5,936 9,820 66 10,498 10,814 26 53,442 10,189 3,307 454 185,277 5,461 17,437 3,860 18,611 8,907 15,174 4,723 18,204 22,927 313 231 2,005 67,966 4,628,994 3,252 2,255 3,189 8,696 8,769 26,455 51,193 4,515 10,278 8,698,572
70
Russia Saint Kitts & Nevis
71
Saint Lucia Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
Samoa Saudi Arabia Scotland Seychelles Singapore Sint Maarten, Dutch West Indies Slovakia Solomon Islands South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Trinidad & Tobago
Turkey Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States United States Virgin Islands
8,933.8 148,692 6.5 9.6 4.9 20.9 10.6 1.2 1.8 2.5 12.5 14,520.0 275 108 235 618 370 1,200 16 260,674
4,315 116,962 57 57 20 109 16 14,980 715 715 4,409 838 15 414,343
9,120.0 149,825 7.5 9.6 4.9 21.9 10.6 2.5 2.9 2.6 12.5 14,859.0 332 108 235 675 370 1,200 50 10 269,737
Uruguay Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Wales

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united states debris Breakdown

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Bags (paper) Bags (plastic) Balloons Beverage Bottles (plastic) (plastic Beverage Bottles (glass) Beverage Cans Caps, Lids Clothing, Shoes Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons Food Wrappers/Containers Pull Tabs 6-Pack Holders Shotgun Shells/Wadding Straws, Stirrers Toys
2,210 5,119 339 6,081 4,120 6,610 4,659 943 3,544 5,503 1,010 434 153 2,016 832 43,573
700 839 57 1,186 1,211 1,721 1,309 321 478 1,576 127 42 274 281 143 10,265
46 253 25 464 340 1,013 303 116 269 336 44 15 19 114 43 3,400
48 315 6 467 447 754 314 114 206 256 164 35 31 130 19 3,306
29,269 65,736 6,211 25,773 27,292 22,041 64,517 10,563 39,254 124,637 8,701 1,517 4,013 32,124 10,442 472,090
88 543 12 526 385 492 395 145 180 616 60 19 27 175 21 3,684
1,884 5,383 892 5,281 3,977 3,202 8,497 862 3,801 13,877 1,056 144 321 4,763 1,313 55,253
320 1,224 270 1,437 1,042 1,170 2,917 299 816 2,447 190 39 275 1,130 336 13,912
180 1,170 48 1,346 1,543 833 1,042 99 797 1,485 119 45 33 310 116 9,166
10,374 34,469 3,674 34,895 26,197 25,316 64,485 6,672 25,182 53,049 7,224 1,867 561 24,707 4,898 323,570
2,526 6,647 1,247 3,342 5,280 2,928 19,039 8,173 5,797 12,366 2,231 299 297 2,902 932 74,006
10 18 0 44 2 77 17 17 59 90 10 0 18 23 0 385
2,281 5,796 967 5,908 3,030 3,341 13,419 1,128 4,213 10,189 1,072 285 199 4,890 1,173 57,891
577 856 472 935 658 1,084 2,632 250 1,116 2,700 146 22 150 1,359 352 13,309
72
73
412 159 317 98 68 637 202 106 112 180 36 458 630 417 3,832
54 81 230 14 14 229 75 75 19 76 29 108 546 113 1,663
19 1 3 0 0 173 88 2 0 3 1 8 32 8 338
109 31 22 2 3 647 73 20 3 62 5 16 41 33 1,067
1,850 809 1,053 666 274 5,804 1,296 620 513 953 437 6,422 5,145 4,219 30,061
101 3 22 0 0 89 40 3 10 47 5 11 128 69 528
354 94 349 34 28 814 170 40 84 84 15 343 730 230 3,369
140 38 63 20 10 244 76 48 20 49 31 158 212 152 1,261
36 2 18 2 2 139 3 8 5 13 5 35 26 20 314
2,492 854 1,464 427 363 11,387 1,940 815 607 1,090 279 3,841 5,845 2,070 33,474
541 480 859 1,093 179 5,947 570 1,976 338 318 93 560 3,177 709 16,840
0 0 0 0 0 4 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16
217 51 45 29 33 137 79 35 41 47 314 715 281 438 2,462
17 34 16 0 5 36 28 4 3 19 4 60 64 71 361

15,877 419 891 1,141 18,328
4,079 42 99 167 4,387
1,259 30 0 20 1,309
419 274 17 83 793
335,320 2,921 16,072 8,568 362,881
1,185 14 19 86 1,304
30,057 322 1,547 956 32,882
11,093 216 689 261 12,259
997 42 163 114 1,316
214,248 2,552 15,192 5,760 237,752
67,070 645 1,550 1,764 71,029
160 3 3 2 168
33,433 419 2,959 829 37,640
13,956 52 687 162 14,857
60 157 1,791 232 8 223 2,471
3 37 812 101 5 27 985
1 4 60 20 0 6 91
13 38 33 16 1 41 142
361 1,381 12,233 1,773 88 1,323 1 7,159
5 5 23 107 1 20 161
19 68 561 138 9 64 859
7 22 620 77 2 35 763
0 17 119 24 0 8 168
117 754 5,805 1,267 57 759 8,759
58 568 1,271 669 19 246 2,831
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 163 554 150 3 50 934
2 12 99 3 3 42 161

108 148 74 51 381 68,585
20 52 3 13 88 1 7,388
0 11 0 4 15 5,153
0 78 0 24 102 5,410
1,832 787 616 721 3,956 886,147
1 16 1 8 26 5,703
441 100 35 493 1,069 93,432
44 34 7 171 256 28,451
18 15 2 24 59 11,023
1,500 533 511 667 3,211 606,766
130 215 81 122 548 165,254
1 2 0 1 4 573
376 109 41 347 873 99,800
19 53 8 117 197 28,885

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3 122 0 75 55 71 0 11 0 14 0 23 0 0 87 461
590 787 2 421 75 596 157 19 322 536 10 1 0 156 103 3,775
1,482 1,538 46 1,899 1,226 1,367 2,300 203 901 2,832 194 73 8 1,155 118 15,342
933 2,824 298 1,858 1,102 1,408 1,996 491 1,135 3,785 276 82 251 734 327 1 7,500
563 3,587 353 7,104 1,884 2,440 5,625 1,161 2,640 4,974 882 114 292 3,325 1,409 36,353
1,858 6,363 1,522 7,009 3,117 3,943 10,019 1,308 3,950 11,923 648 178 1,016 3,913 1,699 58,466
1,138 3,186 2,225 1,952 1,323 2,096 7,587 813 2,544 8,924 596 136 590 4,405 1,063 38,578
218 365 31 324 279 580 462 125 365 2,096 134 9 5 229 59 5,281
2,241 3,729 235 3,328 5,414 3,233 3,706 639 1,769 4,185 567 183 139 877 236 30,481
0 32 0 127 112 88 0 12 15 13 0 0 0 0 2 401
795 1,163 31 745 567 1,151 466 96 405 1,369 72 14 165 112 35 7,186
0 18 8 47 44 112 164 13 24 106 50 3 14 42 2 647
606 1,551 224 996 1,118 1,862 1,725 431 1,156 3,738 248 21 219 788 394 15,077
617 4,541 1,124 6,167 1,674 2,896 16,256 801 6,340 9,773 200 98 427 13,203 1,149 65,266
74
75
102 0 0 0 1 60 80 9 4 6 0 1 3 0 266
0 5 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 4 2 91 4 26 136
23 24 9 3 1 118 51 17 42 20 6 75 95 40 524
246 256 1,119 529 96 168 46 142 28 156 38 349 3,114 1,159 7,446
414 86 96 51 22 760 141 48 23 81 14 197 322 118 2,373
535 276 504 531 111 1,032 249 288 75 143 68 561 4,638 909 9,920
172 25 51 8 13 179 114 26 23 32 10 672 593 266 2,184
44 5 10 0 0 16 7 2 2 2 1 51 12 21 1 73
137 71 119 63 29 261 62 69 62 122 29 259 309 200 1,792
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
415 1 79 0 0 284 47 3 2 11 3 37 11 7 900
4 0 0 0 0 6 5 6 0 0 0 2 3 0 26
103 15 207 800 29 739 59 113 13 32 21 362 4,226 669 7,388
258 114 172 66 94 528 344 84 89 115 71 83 487 534 3,039

1 0 0 6 7
10 3 2 12 27
4,295 166 269 533 5,263
22,730 77 246 459 23,512
13,615 274 1,248 522 15,659
30,365 543 965 791 32,664
26,735 312 4,035 383 31,465
5,901 25 32 143 6,101
11,332 130 891 784 13,137
0 1 0 0 1
1,133 25 35 138 1,331
166 2 0 2 1 70
23,059 68 173 192 23,492
24,518 719 4,429 1,137 30,803
0 0 5 0 1 17 23
0 0 28 5 0 3 36
3 66 286 138 1 23 51 7
87 30 782 84 5 63 1,051
9 31 509 118 11 203 881
40 94 819 142 23 79 1,197
4 77 689 62 9 29 870
1 8 149 312 1 15 486
29 83 1,044 407 5 557 2,125
1 2 60 8 1 9 81
4 8 93 21 6 38 1 70
0 4 4 0 0 0 8
2 9 451 140 0 86 688
6 82 304 38 14 88 532

0 0 0 0 0 757
1 0 0 2 3 3,977
63 25 4 13 105 21,751
54 21 37 179 291 49,800
91 42 80 53 266 55,532
250 90 140 631 1,111 103,358
61 77 22 146 306 73,403
11 13 7 5 36 12,077
110 53 14 34 211 47,746
0 0 0 0 0 484
6 14 1 5 26 9,613
0 0 0 7 7 858
23 21 6 31 81 46,726
126 54 96 1,667 1,943 101,583

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Bags (paper) Bags (plastic) Balloons Beverage Bottles (plastic) (plastic Beverage Bottles (glass) Beverage Cans Caps, Lids Clothing, Shoes Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons Food Wrappers/Containers Pull Tabs 6-Pack Holders Shotgun Shells/Wadding Straws, Stirrers Toys
7 32 0 62 19 159 21 4 5 30 0 19 0 15 4 377
16,135 22,505 5,625 21,260 16,848 16,955 40,787 5,124 19,246 34,808 4,192 1,907 2,988 21,837 4,479 234,696
1,675 5,610 375 7,968 5,171 6,716 4,821 1,143 2,692 7,571 746 146 112 1,909 1,000 47,655
1,851 6,394 165 4,927 2,595 4,132 3,196 626 3,304 8,645 279 78 228 1,547 604 38,571
5 36 0 65 264 369 50 13 73 80 227 1 0 28 1 1,212
62 302 99 293 348 333 1,248 130 175 904 122 24 59 248 64 4,411
3,219 5,629 683 8,192 4,056 6,268 5,023 909 3,421 10,951 783 185 208 2,847 728 53,102
1,597 8,094 1,486 7,186 4,778 5,739 12,755 1,835 6,169 12,885 902 347 877 6,226 1,435 72,311
1,057 4,092 470 12,664 4,966 6,157 5,831 1,043 3,405 8,070 745 171 850 2,681 799 53,001
20 15 0 55 45 70 30 18 26 22 0 14 0 10 13 338
4,194 21,236 1,557 17,937 8,339 12,782 33,650 4,424 10,745 12,159 2,418 990 1,002 6,668 2,399 140,500
198 773 124 668 377 877 318 138 261 1,239 81 30 216 223 79 5,602
2,177 15,616 874 18,100 9,377 11,015 7,340 1,873 10,808 15,559 457 449 336 3,258 1,742 98,981
712 1,778 170 1,935 1,010 1,646 1,691 543 944 3,735 138 76 252 941 250 15,821
76
77
0 5 0 0 0 7 12 0 0 1 0 2 4 0 31
1,742 821 1,096 438 179 3,109 915 413 638 1,349 175 1,934 8,928 907 22,644
688 124 251 52 25 3,021 224 64 94 187 13 231 446 194 5,614
338 87 40 1 19 165 69 19 60 117 8 373 98 157 1,551
2 2 0 0 0 20 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 31
66 13 45 11 3 667 100 23 29 7 5 29 445 83 1,526
425 109 80 11 9 372 244 40 68 157 40 349 155 209 2,268
787 389 503 469 94 2,077 473 296 61 171 148 583 2,976 614 9,641
538 156 294 64 29 775 222 88 68 218 34 263 509 278 3,536
23 0 0 0 0 80 24 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 147
824 852 540 289 174 2,658 1,074 663 433 713 120 2,220 7,782 919 19,261
135 4 53 0 0 450 37 0 1 3 2 36 35 2 758
1,012 224 193 73 44 1,003 291 131 171 565 19 615 640 791 5,772
228 56 185 10 5 399 69 75 17 37 30 219 2,402 644 4,376

100 0 0 16 116
65,386 2,148 4,915 3,432 75,881
27,388 237 724 902 29,251
4,505 244 5,724 424 10,897
500 0 0 20 520
2,939 60 121 83 3,203
31,590 401 1,969 1,148 35,108
43,623 548 1,223 1,105 46,499
58,787 411 1,535 845 61,578
50 0 0 5 55
18,818 1,218 2,885 1,164 24,085
1,183 26 4 61 1,274
19,107 429 1,545 1,664 22,745
6,352 102 189 268 6,911
2 0 0 1 2 3 8
111 1,037 7,013 792 55 559 9,567
367 98 986 263 35 2,179 3,928
20 43 694 529 7 270 1,563
3 9 0 2 0 3 1 7
2 9 43 12 3 12 81
110 144 3,176 580 62 903 4,975
19 104 1,344 201 16 112 1,796
12 89 1,118 218 9 240 1,686
0 2 7 5 2 5 21
72 278 1,819 595 46 236 3,046
1 2 34 13 0 19 69
58 102 1,542 484 24 1,605 3,815
4 43 710 35 0 91 883

0 25 0 0 25 557
700 933 224 3,009 4,866 347,654
122 163 25 86 396 86,844
101 56 19 270 446 53,028
0 1 0 2 3 1,783
19 12 17 29 77 9,298
87 147 72 162 468 95,921
137 200 161 853 1,351 131,598
114 106 14 76 310 120,111
0 4 0 0 4 565
452 495 197 328 1,472 188,364
17 16 0 5 38 7,741
148 275 23 112 558 131,871
39 52 36 55 182 28,1 73

us sTaTe Or dIsTrICT Of COluMBIa wesT vIrGINIa wIsCONsIN wYOMING TOTal
People/Pounds/Miles united states

total numBer oF us states and distriCt oF ColumBia: 46
laNd uNderwaTer/waTerCrafT TOTal
us sTaTe
people 2,391 806 339 140
pounds 33,056 12,135 1,226 2,160
miles 248.3 124.9 30.6 2.5 2,714.2 46.3 50.5 1.4 1,093.9 1,030.5 66.1 1.2 41.7 15.9 2.8 2.0 66.5 119.8 13.4 94.8 126.6 16.3 144.2 0.1 37.0 0.1 21.0 59.4 4.1 397.0 1,468.1 72.0 0.2 8.3 101.2 71.3 144.2 1.0 75.2 5.1 266.1 126.1 0.5 19.2 2.0 8,933.0
Bags 581 276 30 108 12,709 60 493 776 166 8,004 44,372 580 13 1,130 261 10 73 274 143 453 1,618 365 93 1,433 10 257 5 270 1,845 12 545 16,860 1,026 11 3,688 4,104 1,059 1,203 2 33,698 248 4,711 4,829 176 148,692
people 611 286 64 536 11 57 7 750 128 40 15 27 105 66 37 6 10 5 12 30 84 3 97 10 9 12 100 52 556 12 143 76 199 93 66 4,315
pounds 16,680 2,987 1,096 6,376 58 906 62 24,606 1,990 50 750 65 6,750 394 500 45 100 127 35 2,290 652 198 2,575 100 500 55 6,325 600 9,620 175 9,482 348 13,555 5,644 1,266 116,962
miles 28.0 4.0 1.5 14.4 3.6 43.5 4.4 0.5 0.1 1.1 2.5 0.3 1.7 0.4 0.2 0.1 1.1 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.2 1.1 11.9 3.5 2.2 2.0 1.0 1.1 51.5 1.1 2.1 186.0
Bags 106 108 38 7 324 3 20 40 18 12 1 4 8 12 202 36 57 7 74 56 1,133
people 3,002 806 625 204
pounds 49,736 12,135 4,213 3,256
miles 276.3 124.9 34.5 3.9 2,728.6 49.9 50.5 1.4 1,137.4 1,030.5 70.6 1.7 41.7 16.0 3.8 2.0 66.5 119.8 15.9 95.1 128.3 16.7 144.2 0.3 37.0 0.2 21.0 60.4 4.5 397.5 1,468.6 72.0 0.4 9.4 113.1 74.8 146.3 3.0 76.2 6.2 317.6 127.3 0.5 21.2 2.0 9,120.0
Bags 581 276 136 108 12,817 60 531 776 173 8,328 44,372 583 33 1,130 261 10 73 274 143 493 1,636 365 93 1,433 10 269 6 274 1,845 20 545 16,860 1,026 23 3,688 4,306 1,095 1,260 9 33,698 248 4,785 4,885 176 149,825
0 6 0 1 0 8 0 4 6 1 14 0 0 0 1 41
330 1,441 181 817 1,162 1,472 4,010 241 833 1,900 95 28 192 750 292 13,744
54 80 2 66 21 51 34 24 41 105 4 0 0 23 17 522
95,160 252,694 32,224 222,670 153,577 167,727 355,770 54,398 170,700 402,595 37,333 10,430 16,847 153,520 41,420 2,167,065
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana
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108,205 1,205,911 156 2,196 2,514 195 24,540 1,814 15,078 12,928 1,938 324,471
108,741 1,212,287 167 2,253 2,514 202 25,290 15,984 12,928 2,000 349,077
21,270 995,805 2,721 23 3,080 752 7 70 989 1,937 924 2,886 2,005 286 170,138 75 11,523 2,479 150 1,318 7,503 11,195 11,840 20,268 6,378 835
21,270 995,805 2,849 63 3,080 767 34 70 989 1,937 1,029 2,952 2,042 292 172,128 125 11,523 3,229 215 1,318 7,503 11,195 18,590 20,662 6,878 880
0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 5
177 1,824 27 1 7 65 65 5 14 20 11 103 83 56 2,458
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3
15,876 8,299 10,161 5,859 1,966 45,317 9,713 6,385 3,786 7,338 2,130 22,500 55,263 17,368 211,961
Iowa Kansas Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey
1,983 140,163 37 390 8 1,306 2,702 103 9,138 450 2,424 25 6,349 30,640 1,251 184,007
1,983 140,163 47 395 20 1,336 2,786 106 550 2,551 60 8,639 31,292 1,450

16 0 0 2 18
7,908 111 108 341 8,468
163 1 0 34 198
1,181,589 16,257 73,155 36,592 1,307,593
New Mexico New York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma
9,235 186,582 15,710 461,968 945 20 3,588 3,442 2,147 3,923 15 9,230 383 25,830 590 76,469 107,764 26,591 46,537 245 366,727 2,860
15,700 461,868 945 11 3,576 25,830 90 76,414
0 0 1 0 0 0 1
0 25 169 23 6 20 243
2 0 55 2 0 5 64
1,633 5,716 48,138 9,826 545 10,365 76,223
Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Texas Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
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3,342 101,439 2,095 3,367 3 9,087 307 5,958 1,353 7 1,130 22 25,991 36,918 70 357,245 2,512 174,569 31,000 23 2,231 300

0 1 0 0 1 66
49 35 110 31 225 25,138
2 0 0 0 2 789
7,282 5,195 2,704 10,589 25,770 3,788,612
6,157 188,124 1,446 7 1,196 22 36,644 23 3,497 300
241,002 4,512,032
245,317 4,628,994
phIlIppIneS
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Managing editor/Writer Catherine C. Fox acting director, Marine debris Program Patty Debenham, Ph.D. deputy director, Marine debris Program Leo Viana associate director, international coastal cleanup Sonya Besteiro research coordinator Nick Mallos Principal advisors Janis Jones Matt Tinning Dave Willett contributors Ellen Bolen Dove Coggeshall Hilary Gridley Betty Hallman DeAndra Hicks Andrew Myers Kate Rossi-Snook Deanna Rybak Griffin Vanze Proofreader Betty Bruner design Fuszion Printing Mosaic Photo credits
1: USA: Ocean Conservancy 2: Vikki Spruill Ocean Conservancy 3: Jack Jonson: Emmett Malloy 4: Cigarette Butt: iStockphoto 5: Balloons: Stockbyte; Plastic Bag: iStockphoto 6: Daniel K. Inouye: United States Senate 7: Olympia Snowe: United States Senate; North Pacific Gyre: Ocean Conservancy 8: Fishing Reel: Dreamstime; Mortons Salt Logo: Mortons Salt 9: PlantBottle: The Coca-Cola Company 11: USA: Joe Baraban / Aurora Photos; Nicaragua: Courtesy of Liza Gonzalez 12: Brazil: Courtesy of Marco Antonio 13: Courtesy of Barbara Cohen; Courtesy of Jasmine Bannis; Courtesy of Carolina Guisande 14: Coordinators Ocean Conservancy 16: Hong Kong Coca-Cola; UK: Courtesy of Ben Williams 19: Kenya: Mia Collis / Aurora Photos; USA: Joe Baraban / Aurora Photos 20: Plastic Bottle: iStockphoto 22: Ghana: Ocean Conservancy 23: USA: Ken Cedeno 24: Puerto Rico Ocean Conservancy 25: Canada: Simon Hayter / Aurora Photos Brazil: Courtesy of Joo Vianna 27: Canada: Simon Hayter / Aurora Photos 28: USA: Courtesy of Mike Ryan; Puerto Rico: Ocean Conservancy 29: Wedding Ring: iStockphoto 33: USA: Cheryl Gerber 34: Puerto Rico: Ocean Conservancy 35: USA: NOAA 36: Pacific Ocean: Ocean Conservancy; North Pacific Gyre: Ocean Conservancy 37: North Pacific Gyre: Ocean Conservancy 38: Pacific Ocean: Ocean Conservancy; Vacuums: Eletrolux 39: Bag: Veer; Picnic: Purestock; Gutter: Veer; Beach iStockphoto; Midway Atoll: Ocean Conservancy; Monk Seal: NOAA 41: Mexico: Alejandra Lopez 42: China: Courtesy of Yonglong Liu 45: India: courtesy of Captain Rajan Vir 46: Thailand: Thomas Pickard / Aurora Photos 47: USA: Cheryl Gerber 49: Ethan Daniels 71: North Pacific Gyre: Ocean Conservancy 80: Mexico: Ocean Conservancy 81: Philippines: Skip Nall / Aurora Photos
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USA

The International Coastal Cleanup

introduction from the president and ceo

a message from jack johnson

trash Free seas

an enduring allianCe For

vikki spruill president and ceo, ocean conservancy

jack johnson musician, surfer, environmentalist

the power oF poliCy

Balloons: after the Partys Over

The ubiquitous Bag

Getting Butts Off the Beach

all partners agree:

we need trash Free seas

norTh pACIfIC gyre

reinvent: new ideas reduce ocean trash

Innovating to Protect wildlife

salt Makers solution

Better Bottles fishing line: reeling It Back In

plantbottles produced in 2010

united against Ocean Trash

Catalyst for Change

For trash Free seas

sponsors explain their Commitment to the Cleanup

Inspiring employees to live Blue: employee activation

the dow chemical company

brunswick public foundation

The us environmental Protection agency (ePa)

The dow Chemical Company

looking to the Future

Teaching about Trash

engaging the Next Generation

star Power, Kid Power

history and data

The volunteer Network

Person by Person, a world of difference

local action, Global Change

kristen uiterwyk, massachusetts coordinator (urban harbors instituteuniversity of massachusetts)

what, whereand how to preVent

international coastal cleanup

25-year data summary

8 2 11 76 722 153 102 91 160 63 30 31 1,449

27 15 48 54 553 249 142 37 114 52 34 16 1,341

47 17 106 10 237 207 91 29 53 21 12 13 843

100 36 151 1,636 672 404 166 426 146 88 75 4,073

Top Ten Items Over 25 Years

32% 9% 8% 6% 6% 5% 4% 4% 4% 2% 80% 100%

25-Year Item Totals

25-Year Top Ten Participating Countries

rAnK CoUnTry or loCATIon

cigarettes/cigarette filters cigarette lighters cigar tips tobacco packaging/wrappers

52,907,756 1,468,366 2,872,086 2,163,570 59,411,778

3,618,462 2,907,608 251,141

227,762 187,027 134,701 106,253 104,443 86,915 85,600 8,763,377

appliances batteries cars/car parts building materials 55-gallon drums tires

632,412 863,135 349,251 599,355 2,444,153

bait containers/packaging bleach/cleaner bottles buoys/floats crab/lobster/fish traps

appliances would fill 32,600 single-axle adump trucks

cigarettes/cigarette filters would fill 100 olympic-size swimming pools

liza gonzalez, nicaragua coordinator (paso pacifico)

25-Year Top Ten Participating states

on and under the water

Boaters: Cleaning hard-to-reach shores

divers: Going Beneath the surface