Nearly 1,000 Volunteers Clean Santa Barbara County on Coastal Cleanup Day

From cigarette butts to a pink stiletto, volunteers remove 3,374 pounds of trash

Santa Barbara County’s Coastal Cleanup Day drew nearly 1,000 volunteers to 30+ sites from Rincon to Jalama on Saturday, September 20th. In just three hours, participants cleaned 59 miles of coastline and removed more than 3,374 pounds of litter, according to preliminary results from Explore Ecology, with 90% of sites reporting.

The top three items found so far are plastic pieces, cigarette butts, and food wrappers…

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