"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
323,712 Cigarette Butts Removed from the Landfill! Hey volunteers! This is a quick note to thank you for all of the cigarette butts you’ve collected during our beach cleanups and habitat restoration events and turned in. We just mailed another 3000+ to TerraCycle. Since Helen started collecting them in 2013/2014 we’ve recycled 323,712 filters to date keeping them from the […]
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We had such a great attendance last year that we decided to organize a similar event but this time we will also talk about the Dolphins – PBC’s Animal Honoree of the year. So join us this year again for this free and very educational event to learn about our local friends whales and dolphins! Click Here to Save Your […]
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What an incredible day. Last Saturday was almost like an Earth Day or Coastal Cleanup Day type of beach cleanup! We had an incredible turnout: 72 volunteers; and we picked up so much trash: 516 lbs. These 516 pounds included 70 lbs of recycle, 4 large tires, one 20 lbs blankets, a long plastic tube, metal grills and other indescribable […]
Read moreClick on the image below to download the official California Coastal Cleanup Day posters and postcards 2017. There is an English and Spanish version.
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Words from our Habitat Restoration Site Captain: “These pictures were taken at the July-23-2017 Linda Mar Beach Habitat Restoration activity. These guys kicked butt! Go Bears! The 2 volunteers are both graduated or soon to graduate students from UC Berekeley. Go Bears!” Thank you so much Freidel and team for making such a difference at Linda Mar removing weeds and […]
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Since 2014, we have been partnering with TerraCycle to recycle our cigarette butts. This has been a wonderful collaboration considering that we have sent over 400,000 of them! TerraCycle is a free program that recycles way more than cigarette butts and recently they started a Beach Plastic Recycling pilot that we are proud to be part of. Moving forward, during […]
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Thank you ACUX Google Team for coming to Pacifica and for cleaning and restoring habitat at Linda Mar State Beach! Special thanks to Laura who took most of the shots and caught the Give Back volunteers doing GREAT things! We especially loved the shots with the super star jumping in the air to stomp the shovel into the cement hard […]
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Two recent graduates from Oceana and Terra Nova high schools, received the first ever PBC Earth Hero Scholarship. The scholarship is in the amount of $500 and was presented at our last event “A Plastic Ocean” movie night. Audrey Meiman, who has been cleaning up our beaches and streets since she was a young kid and Paxton Christner, who has […]
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It’s that time of year again, time for fun in honor of our nation’s independence. Let’s be good Americans and take care of this beautiful land and ocean we have been so blessed to share. After all, with freedom comes responsibility. Here are a few quick tips for greening your July 4th. Can the fireworks Fireworks are a long standing […]
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Do you remember our first Emergency cleanup at Tunitas Creek Beach? Or when we picked up over 1000 lbs of trash? Well, it all started with Michael, a local who contacted us about this beach and asked us for our help. From there, we started taking actions because so many bad things were happening: from illegal parking or camping to […]
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