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More than 6,900 volunteers removed 116 tons of trash off Texas beaches last weekend. "This year's spring cleanup was a huge success, and we have thousands of volunteers to thank for it," said Jerry Patterson, commissioner of the Texas General Land Office. "If we had to pay for what these folks do, it would cost a small fortune. Anyone who goes to a Texas beach should be grateful to them." The Texas General Land Office's Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup is an all-volunteer effort to remove trash from Texas shores. Most of the trash consisted of typical items, such as cigarette butts, soda cans, beer bottles, beach toys and tires. Among the less typical items found were a chopstick, computer chip and router, hazardous waste suit, gas pump, 1960 Pearl Beer bottle, $20 bill, coconut, music stand base, bullet casing, 42 DD bra, burned mattress, waffle iron, toilet seat, 6-pack of beer, traffic sign, vacuum cleaner, computer monitor, hair piece, hard hat, typewriter, hot tub, Mexican bleach bottle, jar of mayonnaise, pregnancy test, welding mask, car stereo, circuit breaker, burned math book, Greek antiperspirant bottle top, hot water heater, BB gun, pool pass and car engine, as well as syringes, Mexican and Chinese cigarettes, Korean money, phosphoric acid, air conditioner units, Mexican pottery and televisions. "Texas beaches receive large amounts of marine debris due to a convergence of currents in the Gulf of Mexico," Patterson said. "Since 1986, more than 327,000 Adopt-A-Beach volunteers have picked up more than 6,200 tons of this debris, some of it originating from as far away as South America." For additional information visit www.texasadoptabeach.org, or contact the GLO at (877) TXCOAST (892-6278). Hyperlinks will work if this document is read Online
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