Dirty undies, lots of plastic on NJ beaches

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - April 15, 2010

Those were some of the stranger items of trash picked up from New Jersey's beaches last year as Clean Ocean Action marks its 25th year of beach sweeps.

The coastal environmental group on Thursday will release its report on all the disgusting, dangerous and just plain weird trash that made its way onto the state's beaches in 2009.

The group says plastics have always accounted for the largest percentage of garbage cleaned up from beaches - about 77 percent. Many plastic items can kill marine life that ingest them.

Cigarette filters account for 13 percent of the trash.

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