Volunteers banded together to remove 460 pounds of debris from a Washington waterway on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, reported Gig Harbor Now.
Community members and young conservation workers joined forces to clean up Burley Lagoon at the mouth of Burley Creek. The strangest finds included car tires packed with crumbling Styrofoam, likely debris from rafts that drifted in after breaking apart.
The cleanup crew also removed footwear, plastic bottles, sports balls, and fishing gear. Garbage drifts into the lagoon from a neighboring bay, and writing on certain pieces suggests they floated in from Seattle or beyond…