Posts Tagged ‘Coastal Cleanup’
Environmental, youth groups team up to clean Richmond Greenway
Youth leaders and environmental organizations kicked off their fall programs with a joint clean-up of Richmond’s greenway earlier this month. And the accumulated junk was impressive: One group unearthed two satellite TV dishes, a Rick James album, a fake deciduous tree covered in Christmas lights, one dead lizard in a wine bottle, and a disembodied red bike frame, among other items.
Read MoreRichmond volunteers valiantly participate in Coastal Cleanup Day
Droves of cleanup volunteers came by land and sea to comb the jagged rocks, sand and grass of Richmond Bay Trail for the 24th annual Coastal Cleanup Day Saturday morning.
Read MoreDespite rain, hundreds cleanup Richmond’s shoreline
250 volunteers turned out to participate in the 29th Annual Coastal Cleanup Day.
Read MoreTeens help Richmond break coastal cleanup volunteer records
More than 800 volunteers, many of them teenagers, broke coastal cleanup records in Shimada Park Saturday.
Read MoreCoastal cleanup in Richmond next weekend
Last year, on California’s annual coastal cleanup day, about 600 volunteers picked up 75,000 pounds of trash off of the Contra Costa coastline, said Linda Hunter, executive director of The Watershed Project. On Saturday, Sept. 17, the event arrives again, and this year Hunter said she wants to “change the dialogue” — to make those volunteers someday unnecessary by preventing trash buildup to begin with.
Read MoreTrashing the trash
Thirteen hundred volunteers pitched in around Contra Costa County Saturday to collect more than 3,700 pounds of garbage at the annual California Coastal Cleanup.
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