Aberdeen Residents Do Cliffwood Beach Clean-Up

ABERDEEN, NJ — More than 100 Aberdeen residents volunteered their time this past weekend to clean up the Cliffwood Beach area.

The volunteers were out on a still-chilly and windy April Saturday, removing trash, broken glass, plastic, tree branches and other debris from Cliffwood Beach.

Aberdeen Twp. residents removed hundreds of pounds of trash from the beach, said Aberdeen town spokesman John Roman. Dry Master Restorations Inc. of Old Bridge was the local sponsor of Aberdeen's Beach Sweep site.

Girl Scout Troop 83670, Girl Scout Troop 82114, students from Matawan Regional High School, MRHS Environmental Club, students from MAST, Sewa International Central Jersey Chapter, Northfield Bank and the Aberdeen Township Environmental & Shade Tree Advisory Board all volunteered in the clean-up.

Aberdeen Mayor Fred Tagliarini and his wife participated, as did Deputy Mayor Joseph Martucci, Councilwoman Margaret Montone and Councilman Arthur Hirsch, plus young adults and even children. Matawan-Aberdeen School Board members John Montone and Allison Friedman participated, plus members of the Aberdeen Police Department.

Incredibly, the volunteers collected 570 pounds of debris from Aberdeen Twp. beaches, including 350 pounds of trash, 175 pounds of recyclables and 45 pounds of bulky waste.

Some of the most unusual items they found included: a butcher's knife, a plastic orange car indicator light, a cooking pot, a 12-inch cast iron frying pan, roofing material, and CD holder with CDs from Limp Bizkit.

More photos from Clean Ocean Action’s Beach Sweep can be viewed on Aberdeen Township’s Facebook Page by clicking here: https://www.facebook.com/Aberdeentwp/posts/3964876846911532

The next Clean Ocean Action Beach Sweeps will be Saturday October 23, 2021.

This coincided with Clean Ocean's Action Beach Sweep, where volunteers clean up beaches in more than 60 locations along the Jersey Shore twice a year. In this article, Patch wrote about what Clean Ocean Action found on Jersey beaches in their Beach Sweep this past October, when volunteers removed more than 1,100 masks and plastic gloves littering NJ beaches, as well as:

• Sanitary wipes
• A bong
• A check for $81
• A foam tombstone
• A religious statue
• A New Orleans Saints flag with a pole from a boat
• A Trump 2020 flag
• A wooden pig head
• Plus, bras, bathing suits, a yarmulke, a pregnancy test, a Fitbit, an iPhone, and LG computer monitor, Juul pods and vape cartridges — all picked up on New Jersey beaches.

Related: More than 1,100 Face Masks, Gloves Littered NJ Beaches, Parks (April 8)

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