Frankfort high school honor students, helped clean up Elberta Beach in May, before the summer crush of beachgoers. They made two trips down the shoreline & roadway!

The International Coastal Cleanup is the world's largest volunteer effort for our ocean and waterways. People all over the world remove trash from the shores and document what they find. In Michigan, we record and send our data to the Alliance for the Great Lakes, who is the sponsor of the Adopt-a-Beach program.

PHOTOS: (clockwise) Tire exposed in Elberta beach's surf; trash collected in spring clean up at Elberta Beach included old bed springs, wood, hundreds of nails, and the regular assortment of junk; volunteer, Val Gerhart, helps grandsons fill out the data sheet, provided by the Alliance for the Great Lakes, recording the trash collected.

Click on map below to locate beach clean-up site on Lake Michigan at end of Bye Rd, Elberta MI