Brady Sinn hauls a big piece of debris to the truck at the West Island beach cleanup on Saturday, 4/7/18. Photo by Beth David.
By Beth David, Editor
Even with temperatures in the 30s, and feeling colder with the wind chill factor, volunteers trekked out to area beaches to clean up trash and debris that got washed up over the winter.
Mike Poirier and Ed Goulart load up a bicycle and tires that were just some of the trash and debris picked up off the beach on West Island during the first annual Earth Day Beach cleanup on Saturday, 4/7/18. Photo by Beth David.
The West Island Improvement Association held its very first annual Earth Day cleanup on Saturday, 4/7, and got about 70 volunteers to fan out along the Causeway Road/Goulart Memorial Drive beaches.
Brady Sinn, 10, summed it up.
“To help the community become better,” he said, adding that getting the trash out of the ocean, also helps the fish. “So they don’t have to suffer from the trash.”
At Fort Phoenix, Be the Solution to Pollution held a clean-up on Sunday, and had more than 40 volunteers despite the biting wind.
Both groups said they had a good mix of children and adults.
A couple of young volunteers display some of the debris that got picked up from the beach at Fort Phoenix in Fairhaven on Sunday, 4/8/18. Submitted photo.
At the fort, volunteers picked up 514.5 pounds of trash, 52 pounds of recycling, and 22 hypodermic needles.
On West Island, dozens of bags and piles of trash stretched out for about 30 feet in front of the WIIA
community hall for pickup. Volunteers said they picked up 26 tires, dirty diapers, men’s underwear, and 50 balloons.
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Volunteers pause for a photo with all the trash and debris they picked up from the beach at Fort Phoenix in Fairhaven on Sunday, 4/8/18. Submitted photo.
The final pile of trash and debris collected from West Island beaches on Causeway Road/Goulart Memorial Drive awaits pickup in front of the West Island Improvement Association Community Hall after the first annual Earth Day Beach cleanup on Saturday, 4/7/18. Photo by Beth David.
Jean “JP” Lemieux tries to figure out how to get more into the little trailer used to haul away trash and debris that was picked up off the beaches on Causeway Road during the first annual Earth Day Beach cleanup on Saturday, 4/7/18. Photo by Beth David.
Volunteers pick up trash and debris from the beach on Goulart Memorial Drive in Fairhaven for the first annual Earth Day Beach Cleanup organized by the West Island Improvement Association on Saturday, 4/7/18. Photo by Beth David.
