More than 6,300 volunteers teamed up last Saturday for the annual Clean the Bay Day, according to the Virginian-Pilot newspaper.
The event’s sponsor, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, said that among the 200,000 pounds of removed cast-offs were a car transmission, a toilet seat, a dead Atlantic sturgeon, and two live kittens (delivered to an animal shelter).
Other finds were less surprising, including cigarette butts, cans, bottles and food wrappers.
The volunteers worked in teams from Charlottesville to the Eastern Shore scanning Virginia’s streams and shorelines for trash.
