"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
A break in the rain allowed us to remove 70 lbs of trash and 350 cigarette butts last weekend from Harbor Beach in Pillar Point Harbor, Surfers Beach and the Jetty Skate Ramp. We found some pretty unusual items like a BMW bumper, a bottle of perfume and a couple of underwear. We were also able to remove the rusty […]
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18 Earth Heroes came out on a cold and blustery December morning to clean Montara Beach. Many volunteers reported this was the cleanest beach they had ever seen…yet together we were able to remove 29 pounds of trash, 6.5 pounds of recycling, and 110 cigarette butts from the beach and bluffs! In addition, we were able to rescue a 40 […]
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26 fabulous volunteers from the coast and all over the bay area braved the cold, the sun, and the cold again to clean up Montara beach this weekend. Together they collected a whopping 70 pounds of trash, 7 pounds of recycling and 146 cigarette butts! Their finds included: a cooler filled with unpleasant smelling liquid (ick!) an old dog harness […]
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A beautiful day greeted 27 volunteers at Montara State Beach. And so did the cigarette butts: 487 cig butts were collected, in addition to 22 lbs. of trash and 7 lbs. of recyclables. Volunteers came from San Carlos, Redwood City, San Mateo, Half Moon Bay, Pacifica, and Menlo Park to comb the beach, parkings lots, and roadside. Six volunteers from […]
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Thank You All For Caring! Thank you all for joining us for California Coastal Cleanup Day 2019. We had a beautiful day and you came from all over the Bay Area and beyond! Our Site Captains did an amazing job leading groups of over 100 volunteers at a few locations and over 200 at one site. So here are the […]
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What a fabulous Coastal Cleanup day at Montara State Beach! The sun was shining over the 116 volunteers who came out to clean up the beach, the bluffs and the side of the road. Despite everyone reporting how clean the area is, we collected 28 pounds of recycling, 72 pounds of trash and 412 cigarette butts! We want to give […]
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Thank you to the 47 volunteers who came during the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend to come cleanup Harbor Beach and Surfer’s Beach as well as the 2 kayakers who got 7 lbs of trash off the water and inner jetty. On the Harbor Beach and Surfer’s beach side, the volunteers removed 46 lbs of trash from Surfer’s beach and […]
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We had 92 volunteers, with the various fireworks booths and the regular cleanup. We picked up 45 lbs of trash and 10 lbs of recycle and a whopping 1821 cigarette butts. The naturalist Marie, joined us today and it was really informative. There were quite a few people going over to the table to talk about kelp and the different […]
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The sun was shining, the fog to the north was gorgeous, and our four earth hero volunteers removed 9 pounds of recycling and trash and 105 cigarette butts from the beach and parking lots! We also loved having one of our naturalists, Julie, join us this month. She is a wealth of information, and several surfers and beach walkers stopped […]
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WOW what an incredible Saturday we had last weekend! We are so grateful for the turn out and for the kayakers who cleaned up the water and the jetties, they removed 8 lbs of trash and tone of fishing lines. The tide and the birds made it a little hard to remove all the trash, so… we will do it […]
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