"Trash in the Bin, Not the Pelican"
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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Claudia, a volunteer and member of the Steering Committee sent us an email from Hawaii after she went on the beach to watch the sunrise. During her walk, she picked up some trash, and here is her report: “I ventured out after a huge storm passed through last night to see the sun rise and I found this… I’ve […]
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We had great cleanup on October 27th with 22 volunteers who cleared away 17 pounds of trash, 9 pounds of recycles, and 205 cigarette filters, 9 straws, and 11 caps/lids. The Olympia pull tab beer can was the OLD find of the day. 3 Flip Flops, a hat and a shoe were the wearable items. And a pretty cool fishing […]
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We Couldn’t Be More Proud of our Volunteers Jeff and Paxton! Pacifica Magazine features Jeff and Paxton (graduate of Oceana High School and honored with PBC’s first Earth Hero scholarship program) Christner and Mussel Rockstars in their October 2018 edition. Probably one of the most amazing story about plastic and our OCEAN Problem! –A must READ! Story available in the […]
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