A day on the bay for International Clean up Day

This may be the only day of the year that kids are trading in their bathing suits for gloves and trash bags.

Today is International Clean up day And Ocean City’s surf club made their mark in the sand with their 3rd Ocean City beach clean up. Last year, over 800,000 people, 200,000 more than the previous year, picked up more than 18 million pounds of trash. This equates to five million more pounds of trash collected along the coasts of over 92 countries.

“This is our 3rd year doing this clean up – I’ve done ocean city surf club for about 3-4 years too and their the one a that sponsor adopt a beach which is where you get to pick which beach you’re cleaning up its like a really good cause and it’s cool,” said Maggie Bunting a Stephen Decatur Student.

Ocean City volunteers started picking up trash on 3rd street all the way to the Delaware state line. Walking teams consisted of four to six persons who will walk and carry a bag to collect trash. Trash and glove bags were provided to each team members. Over 40 kids showed up for the cause joined by Coastal bays clean up and community leaders like Ocean City’s May Rick Meehan and city councilmen Tony Deluca.

“Today the mayor was out there. He cleaned from 9th to 12th street,  just picking up all the cigarette buds and Styrofoam that the machines can’t get to to clean,” said Deluca.  “So we just think it’s a pride thing.”

Volunteers tell 47 ABC that hurricane Hermine blew a lot of trash onto the beach but after picking up over 20 bags they are confident, they cleaned it all up