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Written by John Flesher, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - An environmental group that co-ordinates Adopt-A-Beach cleanup programs is helping the U.S. coast guard search for the source of garbage washing up on Lake Michigan beaches.
The Alliance for the Great Lakes is calling for volunteers to scour beaches along Michigan's western coastline.
They're being asked to collect the debris and record any labels or other information that would help determine where it came from.
Household and street trash has shown up on beaches as far south as Saugatuck and as far north as Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in recent weeks.
The biggest amount was in Manistee, where hundreds of kilograms of junk washed up the night of July 13.
A public beach was closed temporarily while the mess was cleaned up.
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