More 30 volunteers helped the Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation with its fall beach cleanup in Goderich on the weekend.
Coastal Technologist Tineash Brenot said they collected the garbage in reusable five-gallon buckets rather than plastic bags and the result was about 45 pounds of garbage.
"Within that, we collected over 2,000 cigarette butts, hundreds of food wrappers, most notable was some of our coffee cups that we picked up, having quite a few of them along the shoreline," he said.
Brenot said cigarette butts continue to be the biggest problem as far as waste on the beach is concerned, and once again she appeals to smokers to dispose of their cigarette butts in the appropriate containers.