rollin' rollin' rollin'
From: Arnie Thompson, San Francisquito Watershed Project
We smashed all the records for volunteer attendance and amount of trash picked up at our last California Coastal Cleanup Day event, Sept. 20, 2008! There were really too many folks to count accurately and the signin process devolved into utter chaos, so we had to “guesstimate” our numbers and trash volume, but we feel pretty confident that we had around 300 people picking up roughly 5000 pounds (just over two metric tons) of trash! I spent a good hour and a half baking in the sun out at the Palo Alto recycling center, sorting out the brown, clear and green glass, the aluminum cans, plastic bottles and misc. recyclables. Sweet!
And now, a shout-out to some of the groups in attendance! Thank you to Eastside, Youth Community Services, the Girl Scouts, College Track and Sea Grant – we hope to see you out there for National River Cleanup Day in May 2009 and/or for the next CCD in September 2009.
Here are a few more of my favorite photos from the event!
They went thata way!
Sea Grant takes out the trash
Now that's quite a haul!
