With gloved hands, litter-pickers and trash bags, Pinole volunteers clean up the coastline

By Hadeel Eljarrari | September 19, 2026 |
Two women, a mother and teen daughter use litter-pickers to poke through the grass along a shoreline with the bay behind them.

Volunteers trickled into Pinole’s Bayfront Park Saturday morning, signing in, receiving cleanup instructions, grabbing plastic bags and heading for the shoreline. The gathering was part of California Coastal Cleanup Day, a statewide effort organized by the California Coastal Commission that brings volunteers together to remove trash from waterways throughout the state.  In Pinole, about 80…

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