What is marine debris or litter?
Marine debris or litter can be anything we throw away in our day to day lives: fast food containers, pop cans, plastic chip and candy bags, coffee cups, tires, motor oil bottles, rope, fishing line, and many, many other items. It also includes accidental losses of equipment and materials. Its sizes range from the very big, such as abandoned heavy equipment, to the very small, such as cigarette butts or plastic pellets. Some things found on our beaches can be quite bizarre such as messages in bottles, containers from far away places, or complete car engines, just to name a few.
Marine debris or litter is anything we throw away in our day-to-day lives: fast food containers, pop cans, plastic chip and candy bags, coffee cups, tires, motor oil bottles, rope, fishing line, and many other items. It also includes accidental losses of equipment and materials. The size of litter ranges from very large, such as abandoned heavy equipment, to very small, such as cigarette butts or plastic pellets used in plastics manufacturing. Some things found on our beaches can be quite bizarre, such as messages in bottles, containers from distant sources or complete car engines, just to name a few.
