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A number of local SEACOAST | They may sponsors and donors also be small, but they are plenti- help to make the cleanups ful — and hazardous not only possible. to human health but also to For the most recent local the health of the marine life Coastal Cleanup (conducted dwelling in coastal waters. between mid-September The culprits are ciga- through late October), about rettes or, more specifically, 1000 volunteers took part, cigarette butts, and 50,549 of collecting debris from 26 sites RISE AND SHINE — Members of the MCJrROTC program at Winnacunnet High School get an early start during a September Coastal Cleanup on Hampton Beach. — Atlantic News Courtesy Photo them were collected during along the ocean coastline a Coastal Cleanup conducted as well as along Great Bay. loons, plastic bags, cans and an underwater cleanup at This year is the 21st anniver- enlists volunteers in their in September. The majority of the cleanups bottles, food wrappers, bottle Rye Harbor, removing 3,000 sary of this annual, world- Adopt-a-Beach program. The In fact, more than 39,000 occurred the weekend of Sep- caps, rope, straws, and the pounds of debris from the wide effort, coordinated by next cleanup at Jenness Beach of the butts were collected tember 16. aforementioned cigarette harbor’s bottom. Among the the Ocean Conservancy. It is will be held on December 16 on one day alone, during a When the numbers were butts. Some of the more items the divers retrieved: A also the largest, one-day vol- at 10:30 a.m. student cleanup at Hampton added up, local volunteers unusual items found includ- traffic cone, boat parts, a tack- unteer event of its kind. Blue Ocean Society is Beach and Hampton Beach had cleaned 24 miles of ed carpeting, toys, paintballs, le box, 100’ of fishing line, A non-profit organiza- in the process of writing a State Park on September 15. coastline, filling 294 trash a grill, a computer, a tube of 30’ mooring chain, a large tion, Blue Ocean Society was report on the cleanup, which Cigarette butts are typi- bags with 7,254 pounds of lipstick and a dog shocker.