Big kudos to all the volunteers that showed up for the annual SOLVE beach cleanups, especially our Surfrider captains up and down the coast that made this event such a success! Zone captain Vince Pappalardo for the Newport area which includes Otter Rock, Beverly Beach, Agate Wayside and Nye Beach reported over 5,000 lbs of trash collected by over 300 volunteers within the zone. Big props to our local haulers for coming and picking up the loads - North Lincoln and Thompson's Sanitary.
Statewide the cleanup turned out about 3,750 volunteers and removed an estimated 58,800 pounds of trash! Some of the highlights along the central coast in the haul were the excessive amounts of nails from beach fires where pallets and construction debris is often burned. Equipped with magnets, volunteers removed seven, 5-gallon buckets of nails. This serves as a reminder that cleaning up after your beach fire is critical for keeping our beaches safe and continuing to enjoy these freedoms on our beaches!