Monday, September 22nd, 2008 | Author: Rich
This past Saturday, an estimated 55,634 volunteers came together at 750 sites along the California coast for the annual coastal cleanup. The event, sponsored by the California Coastal Commission (CCC), is one of the world’s largest volunteer-driven garbage collection programs. While the turnout was lower than expected, the volunteers still collected an impressive 742,154 pounds of debris, including 106,500 pounds of recyclable trash. According to the CCC’s site, in 2007, more than 60,000 volunteers worked together to collect more than 900,000 pounds of trash and recyclables. Since its inception in 1985, the annual program has organized over 800,000 Californians to collect an estimated 12 million pounds of debris.
