Coastal cleanup efforts remove debris from local beaches

Hundreds of volunteers clean up local beaches along the Washington coastline.

By The Daily World • September 27, 2016 11:30 pm
Becky Mabardy/PCSGA With a little elbow grease, the Taylor Shellfish Farms-Broodstock Department battles to dispose rusted oyster gear and derelict rope into dumpsters at Bay Center on Willapa Bay.
Becky Mabardy/PCSGA With a little elbow grease, the Taylor Shellfish Farms-Broodstock Department battles to dispose rusted oyster gear and derelict rope into dumpsters at Bay Center on Willapa Bay.

More than 200 volunteers banned together with Washington CoastSavers to remove plastic pollution on 50 beaches along the outer coast and into the Strait of Juan de Fuca Saturday, Sept. 17. Their efforts were part of International Coastal Cleanup’s global cleanup project organized by the Ocean Conservancy.

In 2015, nearly 800,000 volunteers collected over 18 million pounds of trash from shorelines around the world. This is the fourth year Washington CoastSavers has participated in the International Coastal Cleanup. The next coast-wide beach cleanup will take place April 29, 2017.