HAMBURG, N.Y. — You might say it wasn't your average day at the beach for volunteers at Woodlawn Beach Saturday. Armed with plastic bags, gloves, and a sense of purpose, they combed the sand, picking up all the trash, litter, and a few items you won't believe ended up on the beach.

"I found a toilet, and I found a tire, and I found a lot of junk and I saw a lot of bottles," said Abigail Gasiewicz, Girl Scout Troop 30.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. The biggest offenders: plastic straws and cigarette butts.

"We see plastic all over the place. Whether it's single-use plastic bags, plastic bottles, water bottles, straws, paper cups, disposable coffee cups; we live in a disposable society. But, things don't go away. Away is oftentimes our beaches, our waterfronts, our waterways, so we need to also reduce the waste stream that humans produce," said Jill Jedlicka, Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper executive director.

This is the 26th year Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper has held the event.

"All over Western New York, we've organized nearly 2,000 volunteers at 53 sites, and we're hitting about 50 miles of shoreline. Here at Woodlawn, we have probably over a hundred volunteers just at this one site alone. It’s the largest one day clean-up we organize here in Western New York," said Jedlicka.

The litter collected will be sorted into recyclable, compostable and landfill bound bins. The goal was to collect ten tons of trash from the shoreline.