Plastic barrels, fishing gear and nets, and one full barrel of used diesel oil were also among the items collected.

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Their bicycles carry industrial-size grab-nets, rice sacks and white plastic buckets in which crabs clamber slowly.

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The divers seal them in heavy duty plastic bags and, once on shore, take the nets to a landfill.

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Adding to the experience are the free plastic buckets and spades for making sandcastles, portable goals for beach soccer, nets for volleyball and even giant touch-screen internet terminals on the boardwalk.

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The team of 15 girls from various departments under the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) collected, during a 15-minute exercise, 53 aluminium cans, 45 plastic bottles, nearly 30 plastic fragments including bags, packaging, bottle tops, five large aluminium food trays and about 25kg of fishing nets and nylon ropes.

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