R-1-EARTH Recycling, Household Hazardous Waste Outreach, and Watershed Education Campaign

Partner: County of San Diego

This program focuses on San Diego County's unincorporated areas. The campaigning goals are:

• Provide, run, and maintain a recycling and household hazardous waste hotline and website with over 800 centers
• Create and conduct a campaign to educate residents about the safe disposal of medical needles and sharps
• Conduct used oil recycling and general recycling point-of-purchase marketing campaigns
• Deliver community source reduction, and recycling presentations to elementary schools and student groups
• Deliver over 166 watershed education presentations to high school classes each year
• Conduct used oil filter exchange campaigns at certified used oil collection centers

Waste Free CFL Disposal Program

Partner: SDG&E

Through the generous support of San Diego Gas and Electric, I Love A Clean San Diego’s Disposal Solution Center receives funding to assist residents with finding where to safely dispose of compact fluorescent bulbs which contain mercury and can be hazardous to the environment when no longer in use.

Stormwater Outreach and Education Program

Partner: Think Blue, City of San Diego

I Love A Clean San Diego’s partnership with Think Blue, the City of San Diego’s stormdrain pollution prevention campaign, works to educate the public about stormdrain pollution in several ways including:

• Conducting 60 presentations a year to San Diego high school students to teach them about the negative impacts stormdrain pollution has on their environment and their health and identifies ways to prevent this problem.
• Developing several initiatives to reach out to San Diego’s Hispanic/Spanish speaking population regarding stormdrain pollution.  This includes identifying and attending large scale events aimed at the Hispanic community such as the Latino Film Festival
• Managing and handing out stormdrain stenciling supplies to individuals and companies who want to stencil anti-dumping messages near stormdrains in their communities. 
  • ILACSD also helped to create an educational video instructing residents about the proper way to stencil these messages. 
  • Over 1,600 stormdrains have been stenciled through this program.
• Assisting with Community-Based Social Marketing studies such as monitoring littering activity in neighborhoods in order to help identify the behavioral causes of pollution.
• Attending various community events to pass out information regarding stormdrain pollution and engaging with the public about this serious issue.

San Diego Bay WURMP: Watershed Urban Runoff Management Program

Partners:  Chula Vista

Imperial Beach

La Mesa

Port of San Diego

San Diego Regional Airport Authority

• The (WURMP) Group is a coalition of cities and government agencies working together to decrease the pollutants that run into San Diego Bay through urban runoff systems.
• I Love A Clean San Diego gives interactive presentations to high school students in cities whose runoff affects the Bay.  ILACSD helps these students to identify the types and sources of pollution that affects this vital water body and what they can do help keep it healthy.

Employee Give Back Program

Partner: Sempra Energy Foundation

The Sempra Energy Foundation’s Employee Give Back Program encourages Sempra employees to generously volunteer their time during September’s annual Coastal Cleanup Day organized by I Love A Clean San Diego and San Diego Coastkeeper.  Aside from removing litter the employees engaged in several activities at five sites throughout San Diego County during 2009’s Coastal Cleanup Day, including:

• Mural painting
• Storm drain stenciling
• Native planting
• Landscape work
• A kayaking cleanup
• Trail maintenance
• Hiking bridge repair

Adopt-A-Beach Program

Partner: California Coastal Commission

I Love A Clean San Diego is the San Diego County coordinator for the Adopt-A-Beach program, a statewide beach cleanup program aimed at curbing marine debris. The San Diego portion of the program is one of the largest and most developed statewide and includes a website allowing volunteers to find out about the program specifics and register for the program online. Visit the program website at www.adoptsd.org for more information.

ILACSD has also developed a signage program to recognize adopters at over 60 beach locations countywide.

Recently, the San Diego County Adopt-A-Beach program was expanded to include 10 inland sites, the only program in the state to do so. Through this program, ILACSD delivers 25 presentations each year to first time adopters, educating them on the effects of marine debris. In total, over 5,000 volunteers are involved in the Adopt-A-Beach program each year in San Diego County.

Government Sector

• California Coastal Commission
• California Integrated Waste Management Board
• City of Chula Vista

• City of Poway
• County of San Diego
• City of San Diego - Think Blue

• San Diego Bay Watershed Work Group

• The County of San Diego Watershed Protection Program

Corporate Sector

• BD Biosciences
• Brown Law Group
• eyeMotion Studio
• Recycle San Diego
• Starlite Lounge
• Luigi's At The Beach
• Nicholas Applegate Capital Management

• KFMB Channel 8
• KGTV 10News
• KPRI Radio
• Laser Saver
• Cox Communications
• The Linkery
• Pepsi Bottling Group - San Diego

• Time Warner Cable
• Sempra Energy
• SeaWorld
• Wells Fargo
• Sage Green
• The Taproom
• RSI Roofing
• Honda

Community/Not-for-Profit Sector

• Birch Aquarium at Scripps
• Keep America Beautiful
• Jewish Community Foundation, San Diego
• San Diego Service Corps
• The Heller Foundation of San Diego at Union Bank

• Keep California Beautiful
• Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation

• Querrey Simpson Charitable Fund
• Further Your Imagination (f.y.i.)

• San Diego Children and Nature Collaborative
• San Diego Coastkeeper

• Chula Vista Nature Center
• Hervey Family Fund at The San Diego Foundation