Close to 20,000 volunteers have already participated in California Coastal Cleanup 2025. THANK YOU! 

With 40% of the cleanup sites reporting, the statewide count stands at 19,987 volunteers. Those volunteers picked up 139,650 pounds of trash and an additional 38,646 pounds of recyclable materials, for a total of 178,296 pounds or 89 tons. 

Read the Preliminary Results Press Release  

(Including Awards for Most Unusual Item!) 

After you've participated in Coastal Cleanup, please fill out this short Coastal Cleanup Survey. You will be entered into a drawing for a $250 VISA gift card and a Coast Lover's Prize Package. We value your feedback!

Reminder: Our Annual Amateur Photography Contest is OPEN and will be accepting entries until 5:00pm, September 30, 2025.

California Coastal Cleanup Day and the Trashure Hunt can only happen with enormous support from hundreds of community groups, government agencies, and corporate sponsors. The cleanup is a public/private partnership that brings like-minded organizations together to create the state’s largest annual volunteer event. We are so thankful to our corporate partners, who provide the funding, marketing, and publicity capacity to make the cleanup possible.

 Thank you for protecting our coast & ocean.

P.S. Didn't make it to a cleanup event on September 20th? Another option is to do a self-guided cleanup using the free Clean Swell App to tally up what you picked up. All cleanups during the month of September that are logged in Clean Swell will count toward the statewide results. 

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