"Trash in the Bin, Not the Pelican"
Thank you, Paint A Bucket Contest participants. The results are amazing. We had 30 wonderfully varied painted buckets on display for Earth Day, and they were surely the most popular attraction at EcoFest! Our judges had reviewed all buckets in each category, and had many spirited discussions to arrive at their final decisions. It was difficult, to say the least, to […]
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A Movie Night to Celebrate World Oceans Day Free Event at the Sharp Park Library Come celebrate the Ocean with us! Part 1: Movie During this night on June 9th we are proud to present a Pacific Beach Coalition’s Earth Day 2016 Award winning video by PCT. & A Plastic Ocean Documentary film -an epic global adventure following […]
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This Earth Day was incredible! 120 volunteers came and removed 1006 pounds of trash from our Ocean and coast, incredible! Thanks to Apple, Rakuten, Ebates, Nueva School, Scout Troops, Heirs to Our Oceans and ALL the Amazing volunteers for coming to Pillar Point and Mavericks. Some more numbers: – 1006 pounds of trash including 125 pounds of recycling – 1522 […]
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On Saturday 25 March, as I was attending the American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting in San Francisco, Joe Recto stood in admirably as Site Captain and was assisted by many of the site’s Rock Stars who are regular supporters of this cleanup plus new volunteers. See photos below. Good weather and a 35-strong group of volunteers cleaned up 147 lb trash and 800 cigarette butts. […]
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Paint a Bucket to End Cigarette Litter Calling all artists and everyone who wants to help end tobacco litter! We are having a community contest to draw attention to the many 10-gallon buckets we are putting outside businesses to collect cigarette butts, by colorfully painting them with an ocean theme. Fish, whales, dolphins, otters, turtles, birds, crabs… all are affected by […]
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A shootout to the Gatepath group, who volunteered at Go Native Nursery for the morning. Because the weather was so uncertain (rain – no rain??), they chose to work inside and stay dry, instead of working on the exposed beach bluffs. One of things that they got to see was to watch newly seeded purple needlegrass seeds. When first watered, […]
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Pacific Beach Coalition 2016 Successes, So Far… Some Numbers: 2013/14* 2015 2016 Volunteers 11,894 11,603 12,283 Trash in LBS 18,244 16,475 15,032 Recycle in LBS 4,814 2,370 3,509 Green Waste in LBS 11,608 23,789 38,878 Cig. Butts Didn’t Count 89,162 136,662 Cig. Butts (Pots) Didn’t Have Pots 3,733 32,372 EcoPots Didn’t Have Pots 2,699 3,409 * Since April 2013 […]
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TerraCycle is an innovative environmental company, located near Boston, that recycles many different products normally destined for the waste stream into products that can be reused. Brigades of volunteers collect them and ship them to their company free of charge. Cigarette butts, ash, and silver paper inserts, collected by cigarette butt brigades are recycled, into guitar picks, jewelry, and ash trays. Since […]
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Words from our dear Patty: “Earth Day Habitat Restoration at Rockaway with Deacon Noel & the Confirmation Teens from Good Shepherd. Thank you for all your hard work!”
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Words from Dig it Dave, our Roberts Road Site Captain: “This Earth Day I got to wear many hats. I got Team Dig It together to clean up Roberts Road. Sharon Van Huystee Martinez my other half did a great job organizing the team, sorting, and calculating. It was nice to see that we didn’t have much trash to pick […]
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