On Saturday, September 17th at the Felton Covered Bridge, SLVCORE.org coordinated with Save Our Shores for the Annual Coastal and River Cleanup Day. Participants came from all over the county. Students earned community service credit on site.
Save Our Shores Coastal and River Cleanups take place in Santa information on those efforts, please visit www.saveourshores.org.
International Cleanup Day is the single largest volunteer event on the planet. Volunteers in over 100 countries around the world work together to remove hundreds of thousands of pounds of trash and recyclables from our beaches, lakes, and waterways before they enter our oceans. In 2010, 6043 Save Our Shores volunteers removed 14,612 lbs. of trash and 4,760 lbs. of recycling from beaches and waterways within Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties in just 3 short hours. In California, 80,312 volunteers banded together to cleanup 953,476 lbs. of trash and 146,646 lbs. of recyclables, for a total of 1,100,122 pounds (results via www.coastal.ca.gov).
