39th annual Coastal Cleanup Day is this Saturday, and looking for more helpers to pick up litter
It is the largest annual volunteer event in California: Every September since 1985, tens of thousands of people have flocked to beaches, rivers and lakes across the state to pick up tons of trash, beautify the environment and help protect wildlife.— which takes place this Saturday from 9 am to noon at 695 locations — is struggling to rebound from the COVID pandemic.
“People are kind of more home-based than they used to be. All of us having gone through what we did made home a more comfortable place to gravitate.” Volunteers can show up at nearly all of the sites, including popular beaches on the coast, San Francisco Bay, and inland lakes and streams. In many cases, they need only bring gloves.Since 1985 when the event first began, more than 1.7 million volunteers have removed over 26 million pounds of trash from California’s outdoors.
Volunteers pick up food wrappers, bottles, cans, cigarette butts, and other debris, recording the type and number of items so the Coastal Commission can track pollution trends.“Last year somebody found a trophy. It was kind of comical. It was best couples ice skaters trophy from 2006,” Vanya said.
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