Beach-cleaning robots will join an army of volunteers in picking up trash along Lake Tahoe’s shoreline following Fourth of July celebrations this year.
Beach-cleaning robots will join an army of volunteers in picking up trash along Lake Tahoe's shoreline following Fourth of July celebrations this year.
The robots used during Wednesday's 10th annual post-July Fourth cleanup organized by the League to Save Lake Tahoe will sift through the sand in search of cigarette butts, pieces of plastic and other litter. "It is a tracked vehicle that tows behind a trailer that has, effectively, a giant sifter," League to Save Lake Tahoe Communications Director Chris Joseph said."It will sift the sand down to four inches and it will move that material into a hopper. There's little grates where the sand grains fall through.
Last year, the group picked up 2,700 pounds of trash along a stretch of shoreline near South Lake Tahoe.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter. "That's why we have organized a July 5 cleanup for the last 10 years – to try to prevent that kind of impact and from seeing that scene at the lake," Joseph said."That's not why people come to Lake Tahoe. Nobody wants to see that. It's terrible for the environment and it's terrible for the beauty that we all enjoy up here."
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