CLEAN BEACH POSTER CONTEST - 3rd to 5th GRADERS ENTER SOON!

BEACHES - LA COUNTY - CLEAN BEACH POSTER CONTEST

Department of Beaches and Harbors! is sponsoring this contest and if you win, your art will appear on trash cans!

This site has a video and some fun activities for children.

HEAL THE BAY starting with the LA RIVER and DRAINAGE FROM THE CITY STREETS

HEAL THE BAY ORG  You can join others to clean up the beaches, of garbage including plastics, aluminum, glass, and cigarettes and fast food containers... You wonder... Why don't some people know to take their litter with them or at least put them in the cans provided around the beach?


Not near an ocean?  You can help our ecology by recycling, dropping off batteries and electronics at special toxic chemical depots, reusing plastic bags or buying sturdier cloth bags...

GREENPEACE REPORTS ON THE GARBAGE VORTEX !

"The very thing that makes plastic items useful to consumers, their durability and stability, also makes them a problem in marine environments. Around 100 million tonnes of plastic are produced each year of which about 10 percent ends up in the sea. About 20 percent of this is from ships and platforms, the rest from land."

OPERATION SPLASH IF YOU LOVE THE SEA!

STOP POLLUTING LITTERING and SAVE HARBORS (SPLASH) is a volunteer non-profit organization started in 1990 that works on the issue of waterfront pollution. At least once a day splash volunteers go out in a boat and collect trash on the sea.

OPERATION SPLASH VOLUNTEERS HAVE RESCUED MORE THAN 325 TONS OF GARBAGE FROM OUR SHORES: plastic bags, bottles, caps, juice boxes, Styrofoam, food containers, (things we expect to be floating out there) but also things like hit water heaters and flat screen TVs. engine blocks and more!

Link to their site here to learn more!

The Cycle of Insanity: The Real Story of Water from Surfrider Foundation on Vimeo.

RECYCLE - DON'T THROW TRASH INTO THE STREET

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PLEASE ! When you throw trash on the street, it gets washed into a gutter, and the gutter takes it to a river, and the river takes to the sea...