On Sunday November 22 a huge beach clean up was held at Dog Beach in Ocean Beach. The clean up was help by Surfrider Foundation and the San Diego Coastkeeper. This was held to cleanup the beaches and keep them clean. The clean up was for about 3 hours long. When arriving to the cleanup the Coasterkeeper scouts had the volunteers sign a release form and sent you out with a piece of paper and a pencil to record the trash you have picked up. They gave out trash grabbers and bags to put the trash in. It seemed they had a good turn out of volunteers. As we started to go out and look for trash it was very
difficult to find any on the beach at all. We decided to go on the near by trails, where we found a good amount of litter on the sides. We found plastics bags to cigarette butts. As we came back to the Coastkeeper booth I asked what their mission was and the representative told me "We balance community outreach, education, and advocacy to promote stewardship of clean water and a healthy coastal ecosystem." Coming my first ever beach clean up was a great experience of community service to keep San Diego clean, and I would suggest everyone to do so.
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