photo: Salmon Creek via California Coastal Trails Association
WHEN: Saturday, September 16th, 2017
TIME: 9 a.m. to noon in most locations. Click here to sign up to volunteer in Sonoma County.
WHERE: Cleanups will take place at over 1,000 sites on California beaches, bays, rivers, creeks, parks, roadsides, and highways. The commission hosts an interactive map that provides exact locations and other site-specific information.
WHAT: Tens of thousands of Californians will gather along beaches, shorelines, and inland waterways to pick up the trash that has accumulated over the past year. In 2016, almost 60,000 volunteers removed more than 700,000 pounds of trash and recyclables from 54 counties across the state. The event ranks as the biggest, single day volunteer event on the planet, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Coastal Cleanup Day also marks the beginning of COASTWEEKS, a three-week celebration of our coastal resources across the country. The California Coastal Commission, the state agency that protects coastal resources and organizes the event, maintains a calendar of COASTWEEKS events on its website.
WHY: “Trash in our environment and in our ocean can cause enormous harm, even death, to wildlife, and plastic fragments are known to travel up the food chain and potentially end up on our dinner plates,” said cleanup Director Eben Schwartz. “Coastal Cleanup Day is our opportunity to invite everyone in California, no matter where they may live, to help protect not just our communities and our environment, but all the animals – including us – that call it home.”
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