Nonprofit Alliance for a Living Ocean is recruiting volunteers for Clean Ocean Action’s Fall Beach Sweeps, an annual coordinated cleanup of beaches throughout New Jersey. Local residents and visitors are encouraged to come out any time between 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, rain or shine, to take part in picking up and tallying marine debris from Long Beach Island’s ocean and bay beaches.

Each year, participants collect hundreds of thousands of pieces of trash, much of it disposable plastic.