1st Ever DIY California Coastal Cleanup Day!

Ocean protection starts with trash detection! Help gather data about where our trash comes from to send a strong message to polluters: clean up your act! Follow these steps to fight for a plastic free world.
Cleanup any day in September in your home watershed!

You will need a smartphone or tablet to download the Marine Debris Tracker app.
Cleanup any day in September in your home community. Register here
Cleanup any day in September in Albany. Register here
Contact Helen Fitanides for information about how to get involved with a small cleanup in Meeker Slough. Limited size.
Contact Paula White information about how to get involved with a targeted cleanup in North Richmond. Limited size.
Contact Patrick Phelan for information about how to get involved with a small cleanup at Baxter Creek in Richmond. Limited size.
The Friends of Pinole Creek encourages people to clean along several trails along Pinole creek.
We invite you to post your cleanup photos on our Facebook and Instagram pages
@friendsofpinolecreek
For more information contact info@friendsofpinolecreek.org.
Please contact Amanda Booth amandab@sanpabloca.gov for information about areas to clean in the City of San Pablo and how to dispose of trash.
Contact Stephen Pree spree@ci.el-cerrito.ca.us or call 510-559-7685 to register to clean up in the City of El Cerrito.
Safety Guide Video
How to download the app

If you have an Apple device
Search for Marine Debris Tracker in the app store or click the button below.

If you have an Android device
Search for Marine Debris Tracker in the Google play store or click the button below.

Marine Debris tracker tutorial
Read the guide on how to use the marine debris tracker and read the next section.
How to log your cleanup










1.Start Tracking
2. Select the OceanConservancy list. The first one is in English, the second one (below rozalia project) is in Spanish.
3. Use this list
4. Add items you find
5. Help us keep track of PPE! If you find disposable masks and gloves, please use the “other” and “Test item” categories to write in those items. Click on the information icon (i) at the bottom left of the “other” category and write disposable mask in the rectangle that appears. For the “Test item” category, again click on the information icon (i) at the bottom left and write disposable glove in the rectangle
6. When you are ready to submit click arrow
7.Click Submit
8.Enter login info Email: cccwatershed Password: #ccd2020
9.Click Submit
10. Add a picture and map of your cleanup and share to social media if you want
Go! Remember, a clean shore starts at your door. Make it count–pick up and tally every trash item you find. Pay special attention to storm drains near your home. Trash that goes down the storm drain ends up in the ocean.
Make sure to pick up only as much trash as will fit in your garbage can at home.
After your cleanup
Most Unusual Item
#twpccdunusual2020 Be on the look out for weird and strange things. If you pick up anything bizarre, take a photo and enter it in our most unusual item contest.
Report and Share
Take a screenshot of the summary of what you cleaned and post it to #twpccd2020 to enter a raffle.
Other Data Collection Options
Would you rather use a data card? Click below to learn about other ways to log and submit your data. Want to take a deep dive into data and conduct a brand audit? Send an email to paula@thewatershedproject.org with the subject line: Brand audit.