Staff Report According to a news release by Carrie Chase, Benicia’s water quality technician, 555 people came to the city’s shores and streets to pick up more than two metric tons of debris during the 34th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day. According to Chase, the No. 1 item picked up this year was cigarette butts […]
Allison Martin: Reducing and cleaning up litter starts with all of us
By Allison Martin Special to the Herald Ten cigarette butts. Nine plastic bottles. Eight food wrappers. Seven plastic bottle caps. Six drink straws. Five dirty diapers. Four soda cans. Three old shirts. Two Styrofoam containers. One rubber tire. And I collected it all in just five minutes during the 2017 Coastal Cleanup Day in Solano […]
National Drive Electric Week returns to Benicia
Benicia is currently in the midst of National Drive Electric Week. This national event highlights the clean-air benefits and cost saving of electric vehicles. Attendees will have the chance to see owners display their cars and participate in California Coastal Cleanup, an event within itself with the goal of cleaning up the state’s bays and […]
Solano County volunteers sought for Coastal Cleanup Day
California’s annual Coastal Cleanup Day is more than a month away, but volunteer positions are already available. Coastal Cleanup Day was founded in 1985 by the California Coastal Commission to pick up the plastic debris that was flowing into the ocean. Its inaugural year saw 2,500 participants, and it had blossomed to more than 50,000 […]
California Coastal Cleanup Day returns, Sept. 17
The third Saturday in September is coming up, which means it is time to take out the trash that is currently littered along California’s coastlines. It is the 32nd annual Coastal Cleanup Day. Coastal Cleanup Day was founded in 1985 by the California Coastal Commission to pick up the plastic debris that was flowing into […]
Talking Trash: Locally, statewide, Coastal Cleanup volunteers ready to get garbage out of waterways
It’s time to pull on gloves and grab a bucket to pick up trash along the coastline. Saturday is the 30th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day. Solano County, including Benicia, is participating again, said Marianne Butler, event coordinator, who said 3,000 or more volunteers will gather at streams, sloughs, riversides and along the Carquinez Strait, […]