Hat tip to the volunteers from HB/Seal Beach Surfrider and OC Coastkeeper for their cleanup efforts!

From the Orange County Register, 1/17/17

If volunteers can find 53 unwrapped syringes along a small stretch of beach in just four hours, how many more are out there?

That’s a question Tony Soriano, chairman of the Surfrider Foundation’s Huntington Beach/Seal Beach chapter, is asking after volunteers found those at Bolsa Chica State Beach during a Saturday cleanup.

It’s unclear whether they were used or unused. Some syringes had needles, others did not. Some had caps, others didn’t.

At the same time, across the Santa Ana River mouth at Huntington State Beach, other volunteers with Orange County Coastkeeper scooped up trash and collected another 35 syringes.

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