Nearly 650 volunteers dedicated two hours of their day during a Saturday morning cleanup at Jacksonville Beach.
– Anne Marie Moquin, Beaches Go Green founder, said she was thrilled at the turnout.
In total, 84 trash bags — weighing 20 pounds each — were collected, making a total of $2,616 in trash abatement contributions. The team loaded up in his Jeep with all kinds of items — such as pipes, piles of trash, and a giant piece of concrete found behind an abandoned building. “Jackets, shoes, and just bags and buckets of stuff. Hundreds of cigarette butts. My friends and I just went in there and started cleaning it all out. I realized how much we had, and said ‘I’ve got to go grab my car. We’re not going to be able to carry all this,” Jones said.was also at the cleanup event. They gave away prizes for whoever picked up the most littered item on the plant — cigarette butts —and almost 19,000 cigarette butts were collected.
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