Honours were given to some 12,000 Hongkongers who hit the city's beaches over the last month and a half - not to soak up the sun, but to scoop up rubbish.
Volunteers have cleared 172 kilometres of shoreline of 47,942kg of litter - the biggest haul in the 11-year history of the Hong Kong International Coastal Clean-up Challenge.
Typhoon Nesat whirled masses of debris ashore in September and people came out in force to help. The cleanup event saw its volunteer numbers and the volume of trash collected increase by over a third compared to last year.
The green initiative was part of a worldwide effort by 114 countries taking part in Ocean Conservancy's annual International Coastal Clean-up.
In Hong Kong, 225 teams scoured the beaches and meticulously recorded the rubbish they found.
Last night, Ecovision, which organises the event each year, handed out awards to the teams that collected the most trash (Nomura Group, with 1,905kg) and made the 'weirdest find' (the Oriental Press Group, which hauled in a toilet seat).
Standard Chartered Bank won the largest corporate team award, while Kennedy Primary School's contingent netted the title of largest non-corporate team. The South China Morning Post, one of the event's media partners, came in joint second with two other companies in the 'most trash collected' category.