The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation is hosting a beach clean-up in Kincardine later this month.
Coastal Stewardship Assistant Alora Sweeney said the Great Canadian Shoreline Clean-Ups group tracks all of the items picked up from shorelines over a year.
The number one culprit is cigarette butts, followed by tiny foam or plastic pieces, and then food wrappers. Sweeny said the problem with any plastics or the filters on cigarette butts is they are not bio-degradable.
The Kincardine beach cleanup is scheduled for Saturday, August 17 at 10:30 a.m at Station Beach Road.
Volunteers are asked to bring their own gloves or buckets.
