
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, June 8, 1990                   TAG: 9006080890
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NORFOLK                                LENGTH: Short

5,000 EXPECTED AT BEACH CLEANUP

Organizers of this weekend's Clean the Bay Day are hoping for more than just 52 miles of clean beaches when the project is through. They hope to change some attitudes.

In addition to picking up garbage, the expected 5,000 volunteers at the second annual event Saturday will carefully catalog everything they find.

"Counting cigarette butts teaches people that individual actions matter, that they add up," said Kathyrn J. O'Hara, director of pollution prevention at the Center for Marine Conservation.

"People sit on the beach, put out their cigarettes in the sand and won't think about it until you add up all the butts. Then they see how gross it is," she said.

Last year, 2,000 volunteers picked up 7,144 cigarette buts in the 30 tons of trash removed from beaches in Hampton, Virginia Beach and Norfolk.

The center, a non-profit group with offices in Hampton and Washington, D.C., is coordinating the cleanup.

by CNB