Volunteers work to beautify dozens of Bay Area beaches, lakes, creeks and rivers
Nine-year-old Gabriel Coleman and his friends Maarten and Merel dug through driftwood piled on the shoreline under the Dumbarton Bridge, doggedly on the hunt for pieces of plastic and other debris to fill their white trash bags.
Brian Coleman, of Newark, with his son Gabriel, 11, and Maarten Vlietstra, 11, take part in the annual Coastal Cleanup Day along the shore at Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Fremont, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. Since the event began in 1985, more than 1.7 million volunteers have removed at least 27 million pounds of trash from California’s outdoors. But attendance has fallen since the pandemic. Last year, only 38,467 people turned out — about half what it was before COVID. They picked up 308,540 pounds of litter, roughly one-third of the pre-COVID total.
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