Join I Love A Clean San Diego and the Tijuana River Action Network for a VIRTUALLY hosted litter cleanup in the neighborhoods surrounding the Tijuana River Valley! We will celebrate Tijuana River Action Month by collecting trash from around South Bay and keep it from traveling through the Tijuana Watershed into the ocean.
REGISTER HERE to receive resources and event details!
It is so important to stay safe and avoid group-gatherings right now, so we are turning these cleanups away from public places and towards a neighborhood-scale! Have you noticed any areas near your home that need a pick-me-up? Please join us in protecting the environment as well as ourselves, and “walk-your-block” in your neighborhood Saturday morning.
Get your family 6-ft apart – together – for a cleanup down the street! Invite your neighbors and practice social distancing. Bring a bucket or bag from home, grab some kitchen or gardening gloves, and don’t forget your face-covering. You can make this cleanup truly zero-waste by using your own reusable supplies!
Kick-off at 9am with our included video introduction, then get out there to beautify your TJRV-adjacent neighborhood! We’ll make it a breeze to sort what you collect and dispose of it in your correct residential bins. After your cleanup report your totals in our Volunteer Impact map to track our accomplishments!
DISCLAIMER: By participating in a cleanup, you agree I Love A Clean San Diego is NOT responsible for any injury suffered and you waive any claim arising from participation in the event. I agree to read and follow all of the safety protocols for this event.
I Love A Clean San Diego is a proud partner of the City of Chula Vista’s upcoming SOUTH BAY EARTH DAY Celebration, on April 4, 2020, from 11AM-4PM at Memorial Park at 373 Park Way, Chula Vista, CA 91910.
WE NEED YOU! We are looking for volunteer ZERO WASTE HEROES to help guests “walk the talk” of sustainability at South Bay Earth Day. Our Zero Waste Heroes will oversee trash, recycling, and compost stations across the festival and advise guests into which bin they should put their waste.
We are looking for a committed, outgoing, and exciting TEAM to help us divert waste from the landfill and recycle as much as possible! This is an amazing opportunity to educate guests about new recycling updates and ways they can reduce waste in their everyday lives.
We will provide all the training you need, but would love to work with folks that have some interest in recycling and sustainability. We provide community service hours and freetie-dye T-shirts for everyone that joins us!
There will be 2 shifts available for the event:
10:30AM-1:30PM, which includes:
10:30AM-11AM brief training and receive T-shirt
11AM-1:30PM volunteer shift
1PM-4PM
1PM-1:30PM brief training and receive T-shirt
1:30PM-4PM volunteer shift
In addition to your free T-shirt, we will happily verify community service hours for you to thank you for making a difference!
If you want to join us at South Bay Earth Day April 6, please complete and submit the registration form below. EACH VOLUNTEER MUST REGISTER WITH THEIR OWN FORM. Our team will reach out to you soon to discuss the upcoming event details, training sessions, and answer any questions you may have.
Everyone is welcome to join us! Please tell your friends and family about this awesome opportunity, and sign-up today!
SE HABLA ESPAÑOL: Si se requiere ayuda con la registración, llame a Carly Keen (619) 704-2774 o mande un email a ckeen@cleansd.org.
Today’s blog comes from our Community Program Coordinator, Moriah Saldaña. If you’ve been wanting to join us for one of cleanups but haven’t had the opportunity, October is your month. Read on to learn more about what makes our fall cleanup line up so important and how you can be a part of it!
After four years of severe drought, the coming of El Niño is welcome news! Scientists are predicting even greater storms during this rainy season than in 1997. It is important to ensure that we are prepared, whether that means clearing your rain gutters, taking advantage of the City of San Diego’s rain barrel rebate program, or clearing our natural spaces of litter and debris. Yes, that’s right, it is crucial to remove as much trash as possible now to prevent flooding caused by waterways blocked with trash and overgrown vegetation. On top of the possibility of flooding, whatever trash remains in local creeks and canyons will flow directly to the Pacific Ocean, causing coastal pollution and beach closures.
San Diego has 11 watersheds made up of canyons and waterways which empty into the Pacific Ocean. (Tijuana River Valley pictured)
Interested in helping? We have two upcoming cleanup opportunities that need your support, just in time for the rainy season!
Come out to the Tijuana River Valley on Saturday, October 3rd from 9am-noon to help I Love A Clean San Diego pull trash, tires, and other debris from the Dairy Mart Road Bridge area before it makes it way out to the Pacific. This event is a part of Tijuana River Action Month, which is a series of events held during September and October to bring people together in an effort to improve the Tijuana River Valley. With around 40 volunteers at our June Tijuana River Valley Cleanup, we cleaned up over 4,000 pounds of trash. Think of how much more we could pick up with double the volunteers! To register, click here.
The bucket says it all. Come out, roll up your sleeves, and get your hands dirty for a clean & beautiful San Diego!
Clearing trash out of the Tijuana River Valley is especially important before this rainy season, since our beaches in the South Bay are consistently some of the most polluted beaches. Even today, the Beach Advisory is warning people not to go to any beach south of Coronado because of possible pollution.
Volunteer at the Tijuana River Valley Cleanup to claim your very own ILACSD water bottle!
And a thank you, everyone who volunteers this Saturday at the Tijuana River Cleanup will receive a complimentary reusable water bottle! Click here to register today.
Beautify Chula Vista Day is great for the whole family!
The following weekend on October 10th, we are partnering with the City of Chula Vista for the 13th Annual Beautify Chula Vista Day! This year for Beautify Chula Vista Day we will have two sites, one at Discovery Park and another at the Otay Recreation Center. Volunteers will pick up trash, remove graffiti and do other beautification projects to make Chula Vista shine.
This event has made an extensive impact on the City of Chula Vista as a whole. Since the first Beautify Chula Vista Day,
thousands of dedicated residents have painted out 7,750 square feet of graffiti, stenciled 200 storm drains to warn against dumping, planted 117 trees, and removed nearly 40,000 pounds of debris littering neighborhoods in Chula Vista, showing that huge results can come from volunteers that donate just one morning a year toward helping their community.
