"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Support smoking waste pollution prevention! AB 1690 is facing significant opposition and to keep all the currently defined products (cigarette/cigar filters and tobacco and cannabis single-use vaping devices) in the bill, we need your help ASAP! Did you know? … Filtered cigarettes cause pollution in our communities, and they are unnecessary because they don’t protect smokers’ health. Since 1964, the U.S. Surgeon […]
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It was a smaller team at Rockaway Beach this month, about 40 Volunteers on a very cold and windy day. We are starting to get quite a few regular high school students who travel from East and South Bay, and bring their own supplies! In total this group collected 48lbs of trash and approximately 1215 cigarette butts! Amazing work team. A news camera […]
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It was unexpectedly warm and sunny day on February 19th at Esplanade beach! We had 36 volunteers come out, from multiple groups of high schoolers, to those just out walking their dogs at the beach. Our awesome volunteers were able to pick up 2,561 cigarette butts that are soon to be recycled! We were also able to collect a whopping […]
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It was a very sunny day at Montara beach cleanup with a lot of new and returning friends! Our delightful site captains Iona and Janice and naturalist Julie managed a crew of 23 volunteers. This team managed to collect 33 lbs of trash, 16 lbs of recycling, 194 cigarette butts , 23 masks and a handful of gloves. There were plenty of interesting […]
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We had an incredible turnout for our first 2022 cleanup at Surfer’s/Harbor Beach yesterday. Such a beautiful day! There was quite a bit of trash out there due in part to the tsunami a few weeks ago but we picked it up! We had 79 enthusiastic volunteers join us and they picked up 102 pounds of trash! This included 4 huge […]
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Saturday, February 5th, our Rockaway beach cleanup had 120 volunteers and collected a total 145 pounds of trash! When we saw how many volunteers had registered, a few Junior Site Captains from other beaches thankfully stepped up to help out. A new member of the newly renamed Mission Blue Crew, formerly the Junior Albatross Team, was there to learn about […]
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Terracycle created a table made of cigarette filters and they donated it to Mussel Rock!
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We had an interesting and successful MLK Jr Day of service this past weekend. We had planned to host our yearly event Saturday morning, but for the first time in 25 years of Pacific Beach Coalition history, a Tsunami advisory forced us to reschedule events. Thankfully many of our volunteers could join us at the postponed event on Sunday. At the MLK Day […]
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The San Mateo County Parks Foundation has supported Pacific Beach Coalition with the Parks Foundation grant for the second consecutive year. The grant is used to help expand and inspire individual cleanup efforts during the pandemic – keeping the coastline clean and healthy! It is the San Mateo County Parks Foundation’s mission to inspire people to care for, learn about […]
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20 volunteers joined the Montara beach cleanup. Some found a gas tank and a total of 12 masks!
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