According to litteritcostsyou.org, 9 billion tons of litter ends up in the ocean every year. $11.5 billion is spent every year to clean up litter. 50 per cent of littered items are cigarette butts. The most common object found during litter clean-up is fast food litter.
#StopLittering - Online campaign spreads awareness for the social cause.
Jonathan Silver Scott: “Is it bad that when I see someone throw a cigarette out their car window I want to throw it back in #StopLittering”
Advanced Carp Fishing Magazine: “As Anglers how do you feel when you find this sort of mess left behind by others? What could we do to prevent this type of behaviour? #CarpFishing #StopLittering”
Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (Singapore): “Littering kills; and we are definitely not exaggerating. Something everyone must see. #marinetrash #stoplittering”
Beach cleaner: “Did you know that cigarette butts are one of the most ocean garbage polluter, there are random official smoke free beaches but this is not enough. please help not to litter beaches, forrest, parks, playgrounds, everywhere with your butts! the butts contain harmful plastic in the filter which lands in the ocean and sealife/food... #stoplittering #saynotoplastic #beachcleaner”
Tri Works Organisation: “#Crime #stoplittering - Stop littering, it is a crime! We the ‘so-called’ human beings are destroying the ecosystem.” Ann Nel Goodridge: “As a country we are quick to blame others... For this, we must take blame... Adults still can’t understand the seriousness of littering... You will hardly see children partaking in this disgusting act... #stoplittering”
United Nations Development Programme - UNDP: “8 million tons of garbage are dumped into our oceans each year! We look forward to this new documentary, A Plastic Ocean, which sheds light on pollution in the world’s oceans: #ActonClimate | #StopLittering | #WorldOceansDay.”
Killianne Mikel Leigh Cantrell: “This makes me so angry. It’s not just your plastic bags!! It’s your crusty cigarettes, styrofoam, stray balloons, and even the bait you’re using to fish with. How would you live in your skin knowing that you killed an animal? Living and breathing, just like you are...? How is that not murder? #StopLittering”
Earth Care Awards: “Smash cans and bottles into cash, put in the trash #StopLittering - A clean environment is our responsiblity.”
Putota Gordon: “We did not inherit the earth from our fathers, we borrowed it from our children. Lets leave it a better place for them.
#Stoplittering #Bewise”
Brian G. Fralic: “Why do people still litter?? Simply amazes me that some people have no respect for our community and even less for the environment. #stoplittering #call911toreport”
