SAVANNAH | Dodie Sanders and her student volunteers never came back empty handed whenever she led them to the beach to clean up trash, sometimes filling as many as five waste bags with plastic bottles, wrappers and other garbage.
The sandy shores Sanders visited regularly to pick up litter for two years had no nearby hotels or restaurants and no big crowds on spring break and summer vacation. They were the beaches of Wassaw Island, one of the most primitive and unspoiled barrier islands on the Georgia coast.