"Trash in the Bin, Not the Pelican"
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean” Arthur C Clarke 23 February 2019 Multiple Projects, Ongoing! While Chris, in the foreground, held down the fort with 37 volunteers in the field, Helen walked a mile along Westline Drive, dragging an industrial magnet. The magnet picked up ferrous metal bottle caps, screws and nails. To […]
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28 Volunteers, 219 lbs of Trash & 26 lbs of Recycling Despite Ski Week, we had a great turnout at Pillar Point today! Our 28 brave volunteers (some coming all the way from San Jose) cleaned up the Jetties, the beach inside the harbor and Surfers’ Beach – which will be added as a new location from now on! Thanks […]
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This is the high tide line on the beach at Mussel Rock today. Plastic pieces were everywhere! Many were just too small to even pick up. Found these items too, lots of shotgun shell wadding/hulls today. Two items of note are under the garden claw. The pink thing in the middle is a hair curler type thing that I suspect […]
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First Cleanup of the Year for Esplanade The results are in for this month’s fabulous cleanup on January 19th! Our 20 voluntters picked up over 100 lbs of trash, 10 lbs of recycle and 481 cigarette butts! There was 30 pounds of assorted trash picked up from the Esplanade streets and beach, a 32 pound tire collected from just before the surf, and a tent weighing in […]
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The low tide uncovered a lot of trash! What a great day! We could not have hoped for a better day to start the year at Pillar Point, HMB. We had a slightly overcast but warm weather combined with a perfectly timed low tide which gave us ideal conditions to pick up a lot of trash stuck between the south […]
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A Sunny and Productive MLK Day of Service! What a great day we had! We were very grateful for this little bit of sunshine between the two rainy storms. It was just enough of blue sky for us to pick up the trash from Linda Mar State Beach and the parking lot, to plant native plants and remove a large […]
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Our volunteer Jeff went to the Secret Waterfall shortly after Christmas and he took some pictures of the trash he collected. Here is his report: “Did a little hike and cleanup at the secret waterfall yesterday. There was far too much debris for any one person to get, probably due to the recent rains. I was able to move some […]
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Weather was beautiful for our cleanup on Dec 8th! We had 31 volunteers who cleared away 62 pounds of trash, 18 pounds of recycles, 121 cigarette filters, 7 straws, and 20 caps/lids. We didn’t have any of our usual large items…but the crew found sunglasses, a scarf, a rug, a diving weight belt, a lighter and 5 diapers (yuk!) Special […]
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Our Habitat Restoration’s Site Captain Michael led 27 volunteers last month to remove invasive weeds in Linda Mar. What a great turn out! Here is Michael’s report from the field: “We had 27 volunteers for Habitat Restoration at Linda Mar Beach this weekend. A dozen people from SF Federal Credit Union, five students from Woodside High, and a few others. […]
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Micheal and his Habitat Restoration’s team have been working hard for years to get to this this stage. Months after months, volunteers have been removing over 228,329 lbs of green waste since 2007, needless to say that this has been a work of love and hard labor. And last September, for Coastal Cleanup Day, Michael and the Harker School were […]
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