After two years slowed by COVID, California’s largest volunteer event is back
As the old saying goes, a kid who picks up litter is not likely to grow up to be an adult who litters.
For the past two years the cleanup has been smaller due to the COVID pandemic, with fewer group events last year, and none in 2020.“We’re expecting the biggest turnout since 2019,” said Eben Schwartz, marine debris program manager at the California Coastal Commission. “Things are returning to normal.”
Since 1985 when the event first began, more than 1.6 million volunteers have removed over 26 million pounds of trash from California’s outdoors. Some locations provide bags and gloves for volunteers. Others ask volunteers to bring those supplies.
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