For Immediate Release: 9/18/2019

California State Parks Participates in the State’s Largest Annual Volunteer Event – The California Coastal Cleanup Day

Contact: Jorge Moreno I Information Officer I 916.653.1986

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California State Parks today announced that more than 60 state parks, as well as the Division of Boating and Waterways’ Boat Clean and Green Program (DBW) participate in the 35th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day (The Cleanup) being held on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019.

Organized by the California Coastal Commission (Commission), the cleanup event will take place in more than 1,000 sites across California, including beaches, shorelines and inland waterways up and down the coast––from Oregon to the Mexico border and as far inland as Lake Tahoe. More than 65,000 volunteers are expected to gather across California to remove trash from beaches and inland shorelines. California’s event, which is the state’s largest annual volunteer event, is also part of the International Coastal Cleanup organized by the Ocean Conservancy.

Coastal Cleanup Day also provides a hands-on educational experience about the damage that trash, especially single use disposable plastics, can cause to California’s wildlife, economy, and human health. According to past cleanup data, 75 percent of the debris that volunteers removed was composed of plastic, a material that never completely biodegrades and has numerous harmful consequences in the environment. Plastic debris can kill wildlife, leach toxins into the environment, and introduce them into the food chain. Last year alone, over 71,000 participants removed over 800,000 pounds of trash and recyclables from California’s coast and inland waterways.

Below is a list of state parks participating in this year’s Cleanup:

Border Field State Park	Silver Strand State Beach	Cardiff State Beach	Swami’s State Beach	Tamarack State Beach	Carlsbad State Beach	San Clemente State Beach
Doheny State Beach	Point Mugu State Park	Garrapata State Beach	Carmel River State Beach	Seacliff State Beach	San Gregorio State Beach	Sonoma Coast State Park
Crystal Cove State Park	Silver Strand State Beach	Hearst San Simeon State Park	Asilomar State Beach	New Brighton State Beach	Montara State Beach	Russian Gulch State Park
Huntington State Beach	McGrath State Beach	Estero Bluffs State Beach	Monterey State Beach	Twin Lakes State Beach	Thorton State Beach	Patrick’s Point State Park
Bolsa Chica State Beach	Emma Wood State Beach	Cayucos State Beach	Fort Ord Dunes State Beach	Lighthouse Field State Beach	Candlestick Point State Recreation Area	Folsom Lake State Recreation Area
Dockweiler State Beach	Carpinteria State Beach	Morro Strand State Beach	Marina State Beach	Natural Bridges State Beach	Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach
Santa Monica State Beach	El Capitán State Beach	Morro Bay State Park	Salinas River State Beach	Año Nuevo State Park	Angel Island State Park
Will Rogers State Beach	Fort Ross State Historic	Montaña de Oro State Park	Moss Landing State Beach	Manresa State Beach	Mt Tamalpais State Park
Malibu Lagoon State Beach	Refugio State Beach	Pismo State Beach	Zmudowski State Beach	MacKerricher State	Tomales Bay State Park
Leo Carillo State Park	Gaviota State Beach	Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area	Sunset State Beach	Van Damme State Park	Marconi Conference Center State Historic Park

DBW has also supported The Cleanup for more than seven years with outreach marketing, staff assistance and volunteer coordination. This year, DBW’s ongoing support to clean up our beaches and waterways includes on-the-ground visits/assistance in San Mateo County and at six boating facilities on Alameda Island.

To find out how to join this statewide effort, the Commission has an interactive map of cleanup locations in every corner of the state, which is available at here. You can check the website for updates and share your cleanup experience on social media using the hashtag #CoastalCleanUpDay.

Follow statewide efforts on Facebook at facebook.com/CaliforniaCoast, Twitter twitter.com/TheCACoast and on Instagram at Instagram.com/thecaliforniacoast/. See you on September 21!

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