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California Coastal Cleanup Day at Point Reyes National Seashore

Details forthcoming...

Point Reyes National Seashore, in conjunction with the California Coastal Commission, will be sponsoring a Beach cleanup on Saturday, September 14, 2019. The exact time and location for the the 2019 Cleanup has yet to be determined. This is a family friendly event. Participants are encouraged to bring sunscreen, lunch and/or snacks, and their own water bottles.

California Coastal Cleanup Day is an annual event which occurs on the third Saturday of September. California Coastal Cleanup Day is the premier volunteer event focused on the marine environment in the country. On this day, over 50,000 volunteers turn out to over 700 cleanup sites statewide to conduct what has been hailed by the Guinness Book of World Records as "the largest garbage collection" (1993). Since the program started in 1985, close to 1 million Californians have removed almost 20 million pounds of debris from our state's shorelines and coast. In 2016, nearly 60,000 volunteers removed more than 710,000 pounds of trash and recyclables from California's beaches, lakes, and waterways. When combined with the International Coastal Cleanup, organized by The Ocean Conservancy and taking place on the same day, California Coastal Cleanup Day becomes part of one of the largest volunteer events of the year.