"Trash in the Bin, Not the Pelican"
Twelve volunteers, new and repeat volunteers, joined forces to clean the area of Mussel Rock on Saturday, 23 January, 2016. Site captain, Helen, celebrated the imminent closure of the Transfer Station by baking cookies and sharing them with everyone. There was some discussion about the demolition of the Transfer Station and what should be built in its place. We discussed […]
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Thank you for helping clean the beach at Montara State Beach on Sunday, January 17, 2016. We couldn’t have done it without you! With your help we removed: At least 50 pounds of trash, including– 3 paper bags 18 plastic bags 1 balloon 20 glass bottles 17 plastic bottles 15 cans 79 caps and lids 65 cigarette butts 6 disposable […]
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It was chilly and blustery, but 13 brave volunteers did a great job of cleaning Rockaway Beach and environs. Notably, 4 high school students from Irvington High School were there for the 2nd consecutive month to work on a class project. They still have 2 months to go. They put in 3 hours of hard work and were fun to […]
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Jeff Christner reports: “Even though the official Mussel Rock cleanup was cancelled, we went anyway due to concern I had about the styrofoam and crates still washing up from the containers that went overboard from the ship a couple weeks ago. We ended up with one intact bread crate, pieces of several more, and a 1/2 a large green garbage […]
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Beach Cleanup by Marj Davis: “Here is my bounty for today at the south end of the levee beach, everything in front of, and including, the big piece of metal, which I dragged up the cliff and handed to a very helpful young man who was jogging and hauled it down to the can for me (I loaned him my […]
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Do you remember our post about the broken plastic piece found in Mussel Rock? Well, this is the incredible latest update from Jeff Christner: “Here are the pieces together, the characters are: 高橋漁業 which basically means Takahashi Fishery. This could be from the Takahashi manufacturing company, but I did find a business in Hokkaido, with the same name, and that […]
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WOW! We had 41 volunteers on Saturday. December 5 at Rockaway Beach. Students from Terra Nova High School showed up in force as well as students from Richmond High School. We also had several people who were walking by and stopped to help out. One family from San Diego who were staying at the hotel pitched in, too. It was […]
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Reported by Jeff Christner: “Found some interesting items today at the Mussel Rock cleanup. Empty sharps bin with a City/County of San Francisco sticker on it. I wonder if this is related to all the needles that washed up last week on Esplanade Beach. Also three suspect 2011 Japanese tsunami debris items. Two are suspect due to the wear of […]
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We did not expect many volunteers this weekend as it was Thanksgiving weekend! However, we had students from Oceana High School and Terra Nova High School come and help us; one of them, Brad Doughtry, is going write up a report of his day for his school project. And several of our most dedicated volunteers joined us too. They are […]
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Saturday, November 7, we had 40 volunteers commandeer Rockaway Beach and environs for the monthly cleanup. We had a large contingent from Stanford University and some great kids from Central Middle School, as well as several PBC members who pitched in prior to our annual planning meeting. In one hour, we collected 36 pounds of trash and 12 pounds of […]
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