Coastal Cleanup Crew Canvases Cove
The East Greenwich contingent of the Audubon Society's annual anti-litter event take an inventory of debris cast away on Greenwich Cove's shore.
"Soda straws." "Check" "Two more beer cans." "Check." "Condom wrapper." "That's 3, so far" These weren't a couple of college kids taking stock after a frat party. Instead, Sandra Saunders and Fred Griffith talleyed the take of litter they found on the shore of Greenwich Cove by the EG Town Dock and Scalloptown Park and Wildlife Refuge as part of the annual Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup last Saturday. For the past five years, Saunders, a former URI public health and dental hygiene professor, and Griffith, a neurologist, recruited volunteers to collect hundreds of pounds of trash from among the dried seaweed and shore grass and compile information on the type of debris they encountered. They then would hand off the …
