Hey, Californians, you may not be able to resolve tragic overseas wars or heal our noxious national political divide, but you can clean up the mess in our own backyard. Specifically, our communal backyard, also known as the Pacific Coast.

Saturday is Coastal Cleanup Day all along California’s more than 1,200-mile shoreline. Volunteers will be fanning out on dozens of beaches (and inland waterways that feed into the ocean) to pick up trash and pay homage to our state’s most glorious natural resource.

The environmental group Heal the Bay has been coordinating the cleanups along the Los Angeles County coast for 36 years and, in 2025, the environmental group is offering 70 locations for people to aid in the massive cleanup .

It’s a small act people can engage in to push back against a tid

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