11 Million Pieces of Litter Picked Up in Under 24 Hours
In less than one day, nearly 400,000 volunteers in 104 countries found and collected 11,439,086 items of litter from beaches and waterways.
The garbage cleanup was part of the Ocean Conservancy’s annual Coastal Cleanup. Information about the types of garbage found during the cleanup was compiled into a report that will help planners to understand and address the problem of litter.
Anyone who has ever tried to be a good roommate also has an idea of what it means to be an environmentally responsible citizen. Just mentally replace the rooms with ecosystems and the roommates with other animals (for some of us, this isn’t much of a stretch!). There are the inevitable struggles over shared areas, the vying for food in the fridge, and the ever-present question of cleanliness. What do we do with all 
