On Saturday, September 17th at 9am at the Felton Covered Bridge, SLVCORE.org will coordinate with Save Our Shores for the Annual Coastal and River Cleanup Day. Everyone in the San Lorenzo Valley and Scotts Valley communities are invited to participate. Students – this is a great opportunity for community service credit. We will have community service forms on site.
Save Our Shores Coastal and River Cleanups will take place in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. For all site locations, 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).
