There is less trash on a Goleta beach now thanks to the hard work of 11 Rotaractors and 2 Surfrider volunteers who spent a couple of hours on Saturday morning cleaning up a beach near Ellwood. They donned latex gloves and struggled with fragile corn-starch trash bags to collect all sorts of trash that would otherwise have washed out into the ocean.
Great work, team! Photos are posted on our Flickr page.
Special thanks to Surfrider for joining us, teaching us a bit about the coast and giving us very cool canvas bags so that we can use plastic ones less often in the store.
Ken Palley of Surfrider wrote to say this:
“What a great group of folks. I love seeing young people (well almost everyone is a young person these days to me) being committed to helping their community and the environment.”