You are literally giving anecdotal evidence with N=1. > But the Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawaii (B.E.A.C.H.) found that “plastic bottle caps are

You are literally giving anecdotal evidence with N=1. > But the Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawaii (B.E.A.C.H.) found that “plastic bottle caps are one of the top 10 items found during marine debris beach clean-ups and are the second most littered item after cigarette butts.” https://sustainability.weill.cornell.edu/recycling/bottle-caps-and-environment https://sustainability.weill.cornell.edu/recycling/bottle-ca... > The 2017 International Coastal Cleanup, an annual beach cleanup event run by ocean advocacy group Ocean Conservancy, reported that plastic bottle caps were the third most collected item worldwide https://resource.co/article/what-should-you-do-plastic-bottle-caps https://resource.co/article/what-should-you-do-plastic-bottl...