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Watershed Brigade Event

Coastal Cleanup Day
Microtrash Challenge!

September 23, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm

West Beach and Tajiguas Beach

On September  23rd, Channelkeeper’s Watershed Brigade is celebrating coastal cleanup day!

Volunteers will meet at one of the two locations to collect litter, paying special attention to pieces of microtrash. Any litter smaller than a golf ball can be considered microtrash, from tiny wrappers to water bottle caps, styrofoam bits, and discarded pieces of packaging and plastic. These small pieces of litter can cause harm to wildlife and enter the food chain.

Aside from collecting larger pieces of trash we will be using kitchen strainers, to sift through the sand and remove microtrash. Volunteers of all ages can join in the fun! Participants are welcome to bring their own kitchen strainers for collecting microtrash, but we will also have cleanup supplies available at the event.

The locations are:
West Beach
Meet at the west end of the beach by the bike path across the street from Chad’s Cafe. Parking will be free from 9:00 am – 12:30 pm at any City of Santa Barbara when displaying a Coastal Cleanup Day voucher, which can be obtained from the site captain the morning of the event

Tajiguas Beach
Meet at the large pull out area off the 101 South bound freeway at Tajiguas Beach or meet at the west end of Refugio Beach and carpool to the parking area at Tajiguas. If you park in the Refugio lot, get your parking pass from the parking attendant (not from the site captain). Let the parking attendant know you are a CCD volunteer to be able to park there for free from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Please sign up below!


Steps to Participate:

  1. Sign up here
  2. Complete the waiver
  3. Bring plenty of water, a hat, and sunscreen.
  4. Report your cleanup results (location, time spent, estimated pounds picked up, photo) via Google Form, our FB group page, or on your own Instagram page (tag us @watershedbrigade, @sbchannelkeeper, #watershedbrigade) to be entered into the end-of-month drawing.

    We hope you’ll join us to help keep our community healthy and our waterways clean!

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    Santa Barbara, CA 93103
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    (805) 563-3377

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      • Our Mission & Vision
      • Our Team
      • Our Boat
      • Our History
      • Our Impact
      • About the Santa Barbara Channel
      • Financial Information
      • Careers
      • Contact Us
    • Our Work
      • Education
        • Student Art Show
      • Community Engagement
        • Oil Spill Resource Guide
        • Trash Clean-Ups
        • Film Plastic Recyling
        • Water Conservation
        • Events
        • Volunteer
        • Action Alerts
        • Report Pollution
      • Field Work
        • Beach Water Quality
        • Stream Team
          • Water Quality Indicators
          • Stream Team Data Portal
          • Leydecker Archives
        • MPA Watch
        • Cruise Ship Monitoring
        • Ocean Acidification
        • Trash Clean-Ups
      • Advocacy
        • Polluted Runoff
        • Agriculture
        • Oil & Gas
          • Refugio Oil Spill
          • Oil Spill Resource Guide
          • Platform Decommissioning
          • Legacy Oil Wells
          • Offshore Fracking
        • Ventura River
        • Plastic
          • Film Plastic Recyling
        • Marine Protected Areas
          • MPA Watch
        • Water Supply
          • Desalination
          • Conservation
      • Enforcement
        • Ventura River
        • Offshore Fracking
        • Agriculture
        • Sewage
        • Ojai Quarry
        • Halaco
    • Take Action
      • Donate
      • Volunteer
        • Watershed Brigade
          • Watershed Brigade Event
          • Watershed Brigade Monthly Challenge
          • Watershed Brigade Corporate Challenge
        • Stream Team
        • MPA Watch
        • Trash Clean-Ups
        • Events & Outreach
      • Report Pollution
      • Action Alerts
      • Subscribe to eNews
      • Shop
        • Buy Channelkeeper Gear
        • Shop & Support Channelkeeper
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