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

Partner: County of San Diego Department of Public Works

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
• Implement a Community Based Social Marketing campaign to promote recycling
• Develop publications on residential recycling, used motor oil recycling, construction and demolition recycling, and household hazardous waste publications
• Conduct used oil recycling and general recycling point-of-purchase marketing campaigns
• Deliver community source reduction, and recycling presentations and after-school programs
• Conduct oil surveys at certified used oil collection centers

San Diego Regional Household Hazardous Waste and E-waste Public Education Campaign

Partner: In collaboration with the Solana Center for Environmental Innovation

This program takes a regional approach to household hazardous waste, Electronic waste, and Universal waste education and recycling. We have successfully developed and implemented the public education component of the program, which includes:

• Delivering presentations in schools in North, South, and East San Diego counties;
• Developing an online recycling and household hazardous waste database;
• Updating the EARTH 911 web site for San Diego County;
• Developing and re-designing a HHW/electronic waste guide, and variety of media including public service announcements and billing inserts

City of Chula Vista Storm Water Pollution Prevention Public Education & Outreach Campaign

Partner: In collaboration with the City of Chula Vista's Storm Water Division

The City of Chula Vista's environmental departments and ILACSD have banded together to create a campaign to improve water quality in San Diego Bay and its receiving waters, while increasing overall environmental awareness and involvement among its residents. The campaign is designed to not only educate the community but increase community involvement in Chula Vista through a combination of traditional advertising and community-based social marketing.

Source Reduction and Recycling Presentations

Partner: City of Poway

ILACSD delivers youth and adult "Pollution Prevention" presentations, which emphasize the importance of recycling used oil and proper handling of other household hazardous waste. We also serve as a liaison for the City of Poway and the CIWMB by conducting data collection at certified used oil collection centers in Poway.

Partner: Made possible by Waste Management of North County

Recycling of Household Hazardous Waste Education Campaign

Partner: City of Chula Vista Environmental Services Department

I Love A Clean San Diego conducts several pollution prevention and environmental awareness activities on behalf of the City of Chula Vista.  This includes a used motor oil and oil filter recycling campaign that conducts eight used filter exchanges throughout the year at auto part retailers in the South Bay cities.

ILACSD also educates the next generation of Chula Vista residents about the importance of issues such as recycling, and the identification of household hazardous waste items at presentations and an after school program in schools and community centers across the city. 

Lastly, ILACSD coordinates Beautify Chula Vista Day with the City.  This annual event calls upon hundreds of residents who “beautify” their city through graffiti removal, tree planting, litter collection, and storm drain stenciling.

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