Coastal Cleanup Efforts

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Volunteers help clean up trash along the coast of several sites in St. Johns County. This was helped by volunteers, Billy Zeits, Tyler Mazurek, Robert Forte, and Courtney Wood over the weekends. People litter all around the world so, these volunteers want to help clean it up and help the coast have no more litter. One of the great things that the volunteers did was gathering over 300 pounds of trash in just two hours alone. This means that they really worked hard picking the trash up on the coast. Another fascinating thing they discovered was that there was nearly 4,000 cigarette butts they picked up. These cigarettes could hurt animals and wildlife along as trash from the beach. The International Coastal Cleanup effort was dedicated to protecting
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