Clean Beaches Week with UCLA
With summer picking up and more people getting out in the sunshine, that often can lead to trash on beaches and in parks. However, July 1-7 is known as Clean Beaches Week, notes the Clean Beaches Coalition — a great time to clean beaches and recognize ways to be more sustainable! If you feel too busy to attend any beach pick-up events, let this be a reminder to pick up trash if you see it and leave the beach as you found it (or cleaner!). If you are up for joining an organized event, there are plenty beyond the beach cleanup week alone to help continue to keep our beaches clean all year round!
While there is no official website or event for Clean Beaches Week, beachgoers are encouraged to participate by picking up trash they see when they go to the coast. This year’s Clean Beaches Week is wrapping up; however, there is always time to raise awareness and participation in keeping our beaches litter-free!
UCLA Sustainability has a webpage that lists various sustainable events being held around campus and in Los Angeles, including some of the events below.
Several beach cleanups and volunteer-related events happening in July are held by Heal the Bay, an LA volunteer organization. One of the events includes a free volunteer orientation on July 10 in the evening. For more information on getting started as a volunteer, click the UCLA Sustainability link below.
Another Heal the Bay event includes the July Nothin But Sand Beach Clean Up on July 19. The event is a plastic-free beach clean-up in Redondo Beach. For further UCLA Sustainability information, click the link below.
For more UCLA Sustainability events, click the link below.
UCLA is a part of another organization called the Surfrider Foundation in the Los Angeles area. The UCLA Surfrider Foundation Club has an upcoming beach cleanup is on July 13 in Venice Beach at Rose Avenue. For more information, click the link below.