ILACSD hosts interactive educational booths at local events, community parks and trail heads, grocery stores and more. We provide educational handouts, sustainable giveaways, and engage the community with a variety of interactive displays. Topics include: proper pet waste disposal, watershed protection and education, proper recycling and zero waste tips, organic waste recycling, and more!
Interested in ILACSD attending your next event? Send us a message for booth inquiries!
ILACSD offers free educational presentations to community groups and organizations, for more information click here.
For those who want to get more involved with the behind the scenes, we offer two additional volunteer opportunities.
- Pro Volunteer Support at Cleanups – get trained to help at cleanups with volunteer check in, recyclable sorting, event set up and tear down.
- Pro Volunteer Support in Office – help us prep supplies at our office with bag bundling and bucket washing.
The countywide cleanup efforts encompasses around 100 different sites throughout San Diego County – each one lead by a site captain for the public. As a site captain, you will lead your site on the day of the event. I Love A Clean San Diego provides the supplies, additional outreach, website coordination for volunteer registration, and hauling for the trash and debris collected (if necessary). Before the event, site captains are responsible for picking up the supplies from our office. Site captains are asked to scout their location and choose where the meeting location is within I Love A Clean San Diego’s deadlines. On the day of the event, site captains collect waivers from volunteers, pass out supplies, give an informational/safety talk and then keep a record of the trash & debris totals to report back to us by 1pm the day of the event. Any extra supplies will just be dropped in front of the office anytime. If you are interested in being a site captain please email Lance at lmann@cleansd.org.
Join the volunteer task force that maintains cigarette buttcans across San Diego County and become a Buttcan Ambassador!
Each buttcan needs to be visited on a monthly basis to remove any graffiti, stickers and be emptied. Anyone 21 years or older is eligible to become a Buttcan Ambassador for a community of your choosing! No experience needed, all training and supplies provided. To get started simply complete the CLPP Interest Form. See the map of all of the buttcans around San Diego County and see if there is any close to you!
Create an account with I Love A Clean San Diego and login to your dashboard to register for upcoming events. There are two routes for participating in a cleanup, volunteers can either join a cleanup that is hosted by I Love A Clean San Diego staff members at a scheduled event date or they can organize their own with the help of our staff off site on a day and time that fits their schedule.
- Self Led Options:
- Adopt-A-Beach/Adopt-A-Canyon
- Independent Cleanups
- Staff Led Options:
- Countywide Cleanups
- Monthly Cleanups