Another great river clean up is in the bag…Good job from all.
An excerpt.
10 tons of trash pulled by army of volunteers
28th Annual Great American River Cleanup
By Deepa Ranganathan - Bee Staff WriterPublished 12:00 am PDT Sunday, September 17, 2006
If you're a smoker, don't kid yourself: Cigarette butts are bona fide trash.
"I think it's disgusting," said Marilyn Jouini, 63, bending low to scoop butts from the grass near the Nimbus Fish Hatchery Visitor Center in Rancho Cordova. "People just throw them on the ground."
Jouini was one of about 950 volunteers who fanned out along a 29-mile stretch of the American River Parkway system on Saturday. They toted big plastic bags, latex gloves and long-handled trash grabbers in a quest to rid the river and the parkway of ugly litter.
By noon, they had collected nearly 20,000 pounds of trash between Negro Bar and Discovery Park. Beer bottles. Fast food wrappers. Diapers. Endless snarls of muddy fishing line.
And, in one instance, a coconut.
"I was like, 'Mary, you're not going to believe it. It's a coconut,' " said volunteer Jan Beard. "She had to see it to believe it."
"It was a single coconut with hair all over it, but it was hollowed out," said Mary Booth, who, like Beard, is from Orangevale.
The 28th Annual Great American River Clean Up was part of a statewide Coastal Cleanup Day that was expected to draw 50,000 people across California.
