New totals show local volunteers picked up over 7 ton of trash during Coastal Cleanup

            Turns out Franklin County’s beach cleanup volunteers worked even harder than was originally thought.         

321 people took part in Saturday’s Coastal Cleanup and initial estimates were that the group picked up 5.2 tons of trash.

The Department of Solid Waste and Recycling weighed all the trash collected from the 17 sites in Franklin County, and the total was actually 7.46 tons.

The trash was primarily litter like cans, bottles, cigarette butts, plastic, and Styrofoam, though there was also plenty of fishing gear, ropes, and other litter.

But there was also lawn chairs, part of a fiberglass boat, hemorrhoid cream, an electric blanket, a radiator, underwear, a doll, and a “pickup wire” that turned out to be a live snake.

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