Matanzas Riverkeepers, City of St. Augustine Beach plan March 1 beach cleanup at Tenth Street Parkette

Mayor Dylan Rumrill of the City of St. Augustine Beach and Jen Lumbergh of the Matanzas Riverkeepers announced a volunteer beach cleanup set for March 1 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Tenth Street Parkette.

The Matanzas Riverkeepers, a nonprofit focused on keeping local estuaries clean and healthy through advocacy, education and community engagement, will partner with the city for the event, Lumbergh said. "So on March 1, we're going to be over at the Tenth Street Parkette, and we're gonna have our table set up where folks can come out and help us clean up trash between the pier and a street. And so we'll have all the supplies there for folks," Lumbergh said.

The group will provide gloves, grabbers and buckets for volunteers, Lumbergh said. She described cigarette butts as the single most common item collected by quantity: "Cigarette butts. If we're doing it by quantity, the number 1 thing that we pick up is cigarette butts," she said. Other frequently found items include bottle caps, chip bags and lighters.

Lumbergh said the cleanups include a data-collection component: volunteers catalog what they find so the organization can use that information in advocacy efforts. Rumrill closed the segment by encouraging participation: "Put your tush in the sand and the butts in the trash. We'll see you on the March 1," he said.

Volunteers are to meet at the Tenth Street Parkette to pick up supplies and then head to the beach. Additional logistical or registration details were not specified in the meeting transcript.