Beach cleanup in Les Sables-d'Olonne
Un dimanche à Sauveterre

Top 10 of collected items

Tobacco products with filters	2
Plastic bottle caps	52
Food packaging (tubs, sandwich wrappers, yoghurt containers, fast food wrappers)	9
Plastic bags and pieces of plastic bags	60
Confectionery packets and wrappers (crisp packets, chocolate bars, sweets, fruit purée pouches)	16
Lollipop sticks	8
Medical waste plastic: Medicine packaging / tubes / vials	2
Sanitary / hygienic waste: Cotton swabs	17
Sanitary / hygienic waste: Tampons and applicators	4
Wet wipes (sanitary, textile)	1
Pieces of plastic between 2.5 and 50 cm	47
Plastic cups, including lid	1
Straws	4
Waste fishing gear: nets (including pieces of net), ropes, string, tangled nets and ropes.	158
Waste fishing gear: fishing lines, hooks, bait boxes	4
Shotgun cartridges	6
Inflatable balloons	2
Shellfish aquaculture-related litter (container, shellfish pot, plastic shellfish «sweep» film, etc.)	18
Glass bottles	1
Clothes, tea towels	2

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