The 39th annual California Coastal Cleanup got underway on Saturday, Sept. 23. The event has grown to include cleanups as far inland as Riverside and Pasadena, where volunteers are able to catch tr…
The 39th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day kicked off on Saturday, Sept. 23, with thousands of folks taking the coasts to volunteer for the state-sponsored event aimed at bringing nature lovers together to benefit the beaches.
More than 700 cleanups in nearly every county of the state got underway on Saturday, with the cleanup day touted as the state’s largest annual volunteer event. The California Coastal Cleanup day is even recognized as the biggest single-day volunteer event on the planet by the Guinness Book of World Records, according to a recent news release from the California Coastal Commission, who organizes the event.
There were about 36,000 volunteers for the statewide in the 2021 iteration of the event, for example, according to the most recently available data from the California Coastal Commission, who helped clear more than 363,000 pounds of debris. Since the event’s inception in 1985, more than 1.7 million volunteers have helped remove more than 26 million pounds of trash from California’s beaches and inland shorelines — and the event has grown to include cleanups as far inland as Riverside and Pasadena, where volunteers are able to catch trash before it enters the beaches.
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