article_snippet: Volunteers have scoured beaches, rocks and shallow waters along a 60-mile stretch of coast in the lower corner of the island state, located to the south of the Australian continent, picking up no less than 80,000 pieces of rubbish.
article_snippet: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported today that 27 people spent eight nights at sea in a fleet of fishing boats, travelling from Low Rocky Point to the mouth of Port Davey in an annual effort to clean the beaches of rubbish floating in from the vast ocean.
article_snippet: Most of the rubbish has come from commercial fishing boats such as ropes, floats and pieces of net, but expedition leader Matt Dell told the ABC that more and more plastic items like drink bottles had been washed up.
highlights_snippet: Volunteers have been cleaning a 60-mile stretch of the Tasmanian coast .
  
highlights_snippet: Volunteers gathered 80,000 pieces of rubbish - some as small as a grain of rice .
  