California Coastal Commission

Bring Your Own to California Coastal Cleanup Day

If you show up with just yourself to California Coastal Cleanup Day, your site captain will give you everything you need to participate. But you can make the event even "greener" by bringing your own reusable supplies.

Here are some quick tips on what you can do to help:

• Bring a bucket or reusable bag to your Cleanup for collecting trash.
• Bring a lightweight pair of gardening gloves from home and wash them after your Cleanup.
• Bring a filled, reusable water bottle to your Cleanup.

Other items you can reuse for carrying or picking up trash:

• Half-gallon milk carton, opened
• Cardboard oatmeal cylinder
• Plastic milk jug with the top cut off
• Plastic 2-liter bottle with the top cut off
• Reused shopping bags
• Old kitchen tongs
• Kitty litter scoopers for a hands-free way to grab the trash and leave the sand behind

We're interested in hearing other ideas you may have to reduce waste on Coastal Cleanup Day. Please send your suggestions to coast4u@coastal.ca.gov. Let's all prepare for the best, and least wasteful, Coastal Cleanup ever!