That includes a record 4.7 million food wrappers—packing for candy, chips, and so on— along with 4.2 million cigarette butts, 1.8 million plastic bottles, 1.5 million plastic bottle caps, and ...

Food wrappers overtake cigarette butts as the top litter item found on beaches for the first time in 30 years. The International Coastal Cleanup has been running each September since 1986 ...

Plastic Cigarette Wrapper Found Inside a Jellyfish. The still legible label is a reminder that plastics are everywhere. By Sarah Gibbens. September 21, 2018 ...

Cigarette butts, plastic food wrappers still top litter items on beaches: Ocean Wise. The organization says the good news is the number of plastic bags found on Canadian shorelines was down in 2022.