Every year on April 22, Earth Day commemorates the 1970 start of the contemporary environmental movement. Earth Day is now generally acknowledged as the world's largest secular celebration, with over a billion people participating each year in a day of action to improve human behavior and generate global, national, and local policy changes for a better planet.

The semiannual beach sweep took place on April 21st at the Raritan Bay Waterfront Park. Students of the Environmental Club and National Honor Society sacrificed sleeping in on the weekend to make sure...