#new record

National foundation’s annual beach cleanup report shows Garden Isle volunteers smashed the previous record set in 2017 by almost 43K pounds; total 172,564 pounds of trash removed last year from shores statewide, dwarfing numbers from other states.

Of the 162,902 pounds collected last year, 154,157 pounds were marine debris — fishing nets, lines, eel traps and other debris that kills marine life and destroys reefs.