"Trash in the Bin, Not the Pelican"
Coastal Cleanup Day was a huge success! With over 100 volunteers we collected… 230 pounds garbage 66 pounds of recycling 4230 cigarette butts! A car bumper A bag full of leg braces and a tire over 2.5 miles of beach!! Thank you to everyone who helped out. We appreciate all the work that got done. Special thanks to Laurel […]
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A big thank you to the 42 people that came out today…including a very special callout to Cathy who brought her friends to clean up the beach for her birthday! Together we collected: 144 pounds garbage 20 pounds of recycling 994 cigarette butts!!! (we think that might be a record!) 9 straws 38 bottle caps 3 tennis balls a grill […]
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Lynn reports from her experience with the Science Exchange Give Back team: “So proud of the Science Exchange team yesterday who cleaned Linda Mar beach and extended the wood chip mulch up the Linda Mar Coastal Trail from the trees edge to beyond the social trail. While they all worked hard, they had a way of laughing and smiling […]
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A big thank you to the 24 people that came out today! The beach was extremely polluted due to all of the recent nice weather drawing in tourists, and even with just the 24 of us we collected… 116 pounds garbage 34 pounds of recycling !!!!!!!!904 cigarette butts!!!!!!!!! wow!!! 26 straws 28 bottle caps 1 hubcap 4 outfits worth of clothing […]
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WOW! Let us say it again: WOW! YOU ALL WERE FANTASTIC and together we were able to create one of the most incredible day for Pacifica, Half Moon Bay, Daly City, the coast, the sea stars, and most especially, the environment! From the Schools, to the Action, to the EcoFest, everything was amazing and extremely impactful! Earth Day of Action and EcoFest 2018 Results […]
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The Give Back Teams Are Numerous in June Report from Lynn, President of the Pacific Beach Coalition. The Give Back teams of up to 50 volunteers from businesses around the bay area clean a beach and the surrounding area in 1 hour and then tackle weeding the coastal trail between Linda Mar and Rockaway beaches. This year we removed all of the […]
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A beautiful Saturday full of strolling through the beaches of the coast side! Thank you to all of our volunteers, especially YMSL, for joining us June 30th. We collected 38 lbs of trash, 378 cigarette butts, 34 bottle caps and 13 straws. The light load this week is NOT a bad thing, all of our volunteers reported the cleanest beach conditions they […]
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We used our new popup tent for the first time; I purchase such items with proceeds from recycling of cans, glass and plastic bottles, both picked up during cleanups and from my household collection. The tent was a big hit on such a gloriously sunny day. The spring flowers were abundant and attracted plenty of busy bumble bees. 21 volunteers […]
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We had only 1 new volunteer (Lorrie Epling), but we were a team of 6 Mussel Rockstars and possibly additional PBC Ambassadors. If you want to adopt your area, the Ambassadors, as you will be called, are given grabbers and shirts from the PBC. The Mussel Rockstars are Paxton Christner, Jeff Christner (famous for finding the only legitimate Japanese Tsunami […]
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A big Thank You to the 53 volunteers who braved the cold on Saturday!! (A special thanks to our regulars from YMSL and to San Carlos 4H, who joined us for the first time this month!!!) We collected over 150 pounds of garbage, recyclables, and cigarette butts, including… a tire 347 cigarette butts 47 pounds of recycling 2 full paint […]
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