Volunteers help make Great Lakes beaches a little cleaner including Milwaukee's Bradford Beach

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Bradford Beach in Milwaukee just got a little cleaner. 

This morning adopt-a-beach volunteers picked up trash along the shore. The cleanup, hosted by Alliance for the Great Lakes, is part of an international coastal cleanup. 

It's the world's largest beach cleanup. 

Hundreds of thousands of volunteers worldwide are removing trash from beaches and waterways today, Sept. 20. Around 2,000 of those volunteers are cleaning up the Great Lakes. 

One local volunteer says they were out at Bradford Beach because it's popular.

"All of the plastic," said Vice President for Development of Alliance for the Great Lakes Matt Altstiel. "All of the pieces of litter that we see will find its way in our water and that can find its way into us." 

Last year, more than 48,000 volunteers collected over 7.4 million pounds of trash globally. 

Ocean conservancy is expecting a larger turnout this weekend.