On May 11th, 2012 we had our last marine debris removal group from Moss Point High School come out to clean up site #4 on the South side of Deer Island. It started off with a short rope swing experience and ended with 239.45 lbs of debris! Great job guys!
They were a hard working group that was trying their best to beat the highest amount of debris collected so far, which is 851 lbs.
Even though it didn't seem like there was much to pick up out there, we found a lot of small pieces of plastic, including styrofoam fragments, bottle caps and rings and parts of fireworks.
They collected a total of 121 lbs of treated wood, not including the piece pictured above behind the student holding the log!
It took all of us to pull it off, but we finally pushed the cart all the way down the 1/2 mile strip of beach and across the island to the North side to load onto the boat. We collected everything from a saturated couch cushion to a large, rusted piece of wire from a large vessel!
I want to say thank you to the students from Moss Point High School! You all did a great job and I appreciate all your hard work. Whether or not you feel like you made an impact, you should know that every small step taken is an impact in the making =) Keep it up and I hope you share all that you have learned about the marine debris problem and how we can be a part of the solution just by picking up what we see lying on the ground!
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