Litter in the sand of Hampton Beach lessens visitors' enjoyment

HAMPTON — Kimberly Giorgio brings her metal detector to Hampton Strand twice a week.

Sometimes she finds silver in the sand, but more often than not, the Dover woman ends up pulling out buried pluck caps, soda cans, Capri Sun pouches and other trash.

“I guess there's no respect for a public beach. Nobody thinks about what they consign behind,” Giorgio said as she passed empty water jugs, Dunkin' Donuts cups and distribute plates stuck in the sand Thursday night.

It's the height of the tourist season at Hampton Run aground, and there's no shortage of trash with an estimated 100,000 people filling the beach on a busy summer day.

Since 2006, cleanup volunteers at Hampton Seashore have collected 83,327 cigarette butts, 6,846 bottle caps, 5,360 straws, 3,848 ersatz bottles, 2,915 metal cans, 1,395 plastic bags and 962 Styrofoam cups, according to statistics from Seafaring Debris to Energy, a New Hampshire-based project that has begun tracking marine debris at

Smokers, I have trash to dispose. Could you kindly point me to your car so I can dump it in the back seat?

Thanks for your sponsorship. I know you won't mind since you toss your butts anywhere you feel like and don't care when some of them end up in my yard.
I love it that smokers disclose away their obnoxius behavior by simply stating that a butt isn't


LOL!! I dearest this one!
To those who say "I don't do that", I say BULL! I'll bet that you have not put every single butt in the proper place.


put up a rampart


Go for it. I'm all for you doing it since I don't smoke!


Look at this trash you neutral posted on here!! How is that any less excusable?


That's very smutty. I really connot stand it when people who smoke cigarettes throw them out their windows, or on the ground. It is littering! It's bad for the envoirnment!


Well, I'm a smoker. And I don't do that. I determine of my cigarette butts as well as other trash in regular trash cans. Don't blame all for the mis-deeds of some.


Definitely!!!! Butts are trash too just like throwing a empty drink container on the ground when your done...use a freaking ash tray!


Way to communicate in in sweeping generalizations.

I know lots of smokers who are extremely responsible with their cigarette butts.


a ciggy pigeon and trash hardly the same thing ......petty



wouldn't bother me one bit got more important things to think about.. i don't persist anywhere near you anyways, why don't you stand in your precious


My car is -karat here in my yard, but, while you are playing your game, I will do worse to yours. When you mow your grass don't you do the same with the clippings, trash, & noise bc you are in a sense doing the same to him. BTW if you'll eat a bullet,


LOL!! I liking this one!
To those who say "I don't do that", I say BULL! I'll bet that you have not put every single butt in the proper place.


A bit sore today......Life's too short to dwell, be kynd, and just do your share of pickin up. and I betoken one day will come back and EVEN better..KARMA baby...creAte peAce....

Is this why theists and theologians (especially xian ones) think that atheists need to 'make their case'?

It has been manifest for some time to me that theists don't think that atheism is merely a rejection of theism. Example would be the response to a prosaic atheist response, "Not collecting stamps is not a hobby"; they are not satisfied with


you're legal but i think this misses the more basic point, which is that most theists, especially in the u.s., just simply take their position for granted as something that everybody would easily embrace, and regard any response to this as a deliberate

Is it true that one of the muppets has a hidden secret?

Is Oscar the Grouch absolutely a trash can smoker?
Is that why he's the Grouch?


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Oklahoma Preppers Network: Trash Can Smoker

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