"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Have you ever heard of www.terracycle.com? If not, you should check it out! They recycle a lot of trash that you might think belong to the landfill for instance diapers, cigarette butts, pens, toothpaste, Nespresso capsules… But nope, if you start collecting any of those items, they will send you a UPS label to ship your box for free. Isn’t it […]
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For the past few months, Pacific Beach Coalition has been recycling the cigarette butts collected during the beach cleanups! Have you heard of Terra Cycle? TerraCycle is a highly-awarded, international upcycling and recycling company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material into affordable, innovative products. TerraCycle is widely considered the world’s leader in the collection and reuse of […]
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Sharp Park Golf Course, one of six courses in the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department’s portfolio, will no longer rely on the Hetch Hetchy reservoir and water system, which is the Bay Area’s main source of drinking water, to irrigate its greens and keep its fairways clean, the San Francisco Examiner reported. City-owned Sharp Park is now on recycled […]
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Protection of the Snowy Plover Wintering Habitat on Pacifica State Beach How they help us: About Pacifica Shorebird Alliance: The Pacifica Shorebird Alliance (PSA) is a group of volunteers in Pacifica, California, working to engage and educate the public about the protection of local coastal birds and their eco-communities. PSA is a project of Pacifica’s Environmental Family, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. PSA is working with […]
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How they help us: About Pacifica Garden Club: The objective of this organization shall be to cultivate beauty through good gardening; to study and be educated in growing plants, trees and flowers; to be educated in our wildlife, birds, butterflies, bees, etc.; to encourage the protection and conservation of our natural resources; to support youth groups; and to promote the […]
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Come in… Relax… Unwind… Breath… How they help us: About Ocean Yoga: Ocean Yoga was founded in January 2008 by Ron Kino and Alison Sanders. When the only yoga studio in town was closing its doors in November 2007, we gathered a group of friends and members of the community to talk about how we could move forward to […]
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Go Native is dedicated to preserving and restoring the wild and open places of California. How they help us: About Go Native Inc: We provide a full spectrum of wildland management services, with extensive experience in site assessment, natural landscape construction, erosion control, weed management, site-specific plant propagation and long-term maintenance. Our equipment operators and crew bring a unique […]
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Last Saturday was a wet day but thankfully the rain stopped right before our cleanup. 32 volunteers showed up despite the weather, it is always nice to see how brave and determinate our volunteers can be! We collected over 151 lbs of trash which included 24 lbs of recycling but also 4 balloons, 48 plastic bottles, 239 food wrappers, 571 […]
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There has been a lot of food container litter this week, but many of us have been picking it up on a daily basis, so that it did not accumulate. There were 5 car tires found that bumped up the weight to a total of 190 pounds of trash. There were 13 pounds of recycling, 10 straws, 10 bottle caps […]
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California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Tuesday imposing the nation’s first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags as a way to address litter, primarily in waterways. Senate Bill 270 was one of the last major bills pending Tuesday, the deadline for the governor to sign or veto the hundreds of bills sent to him during the final weeks […]
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