Seal Beach Daily

“If you only have time to attend one beach cleanup this year, this is the one,” writes Save our Beach founder Kim Masoner in a recent e-mail dispatch. Saturday is the big one, the 25th Annual California Coastal Cleanup, and across the state, tens of thousands of volunteers will be scouring beaches and waterways for trash.

Last year, 70,000 people removed an amazing 1,800,000 pounds of trash and recyclables from the shorelines and riverbeds of California during the single-day event. This year, more that a thousand volunteers are expected at Seal Beach’s Coastal Cleanup sites.

Save Our Beach has organized three cleanup locations, parking accommodations, a shuttle between cleanups and lots of goodies for volunteers. For the first 200 volunteers at each site, there are coupons for shakes and kid’s meals at Ruby’s, reusable grocery bags and Simple Green samples and coupons. Hot dogs, chips, cookies and lemonade will be served free to vols at all three locations while supplies last. Plenty of drinking water will be on hand.

All you really need to bring is yourself and a willingness to work. Gloves and reusable bags will be available for trash collection, but Kim says that bringing your own bucket or reused bag and work gloves will help reduce the waste produced by the event.

The Seal Beach cleanup locations include: (A) Marina Drive and the San Gabriel River, (B) Pacific Coast Highway and the river and (C) First Street Beach. Hours: 9 a.m.-noon. White City of Seal Beach shuttle vans will run continuously between the locations from 8 a.m. – 1 p.m., stopping at the blue tents. [see map] Visit Save Our Beach for detailed driving and parking directions.

Learn more about the California Coastal Cleanup at the California Coastal Commission website.

Planning to join thousands of your fellow Californians for the big event by volunteering at a Seal Beach location? Send Save Our Beach an RSVP at kim@saveourbeach.org.

Update Friday, Sept 18: In addition to plenty of help from the City of Seal Beach, upriver cities are deeply involved in the Seal Beach Coastal Coastal Cleanup efforts this year. Cypress, Garden Grove & Los Alamitos are donating trucks and workers’ time. Other cities are promoting the event to their citizens at city council meetings, high-traffic intersections, on their websites and public announcement boards. They are: Anaheim, Azusa, Covina, Cypress, Duarte, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Hawaiian Gardens, La Puente, Long Beach, Los Alamitos, Orange, Pico Rivera, West Covina. Thank you!

Previously at SBD: Dawn patrol: Save Our Beach on KROQ