Join I Love A Clean San Diego, iHeart Media, and San Diego County Toyota Dealers for a cleanup at Mission Beach Park! All supplies are provided, but help reduce waste by bringing your own reusable water bottle, bucket to collect trash, and gardening or work gloves. Volunteers are advised to wear comfortable closed toed shoes and sun protection.
Channel 933 will be on site for the cleanup playing music to enjoy while you volunteer!
Volunteers of all ages are welcome to participate, and all volunteers must sign a waiver regardless of age. Minors under the age of 18 require a parent or guardian signature on their waiver form.
Join ILACSD as we partner with the County of San Diego for a volunteer cleanup event of downtown Pine Valley following Pine Valley Days.
All supplies are provided, but help reduce waste by bringing your own reusable water bottle, bucket to collect litter and gardening or work gloves. Volunteers are advised to wear comfortable close toed shoes and sun protection.
All volunteers must sign a waiver regardless of age, and minors under the age of 18 require an additional parent or guardian signature on their waiver form. Save time in line and print yours in advance here.
Join ILACSD as we team up with Kashi to clean up Moonlight Beach in Encinitas on July 13! From 9 am to noon, volunteers will walk the beach, removing litter and debris from our local environment. Afterward, stick around to celebrate with another hour of fun, sun, music, and giveaway prizes! Kashi will have lots of fun freebies and prizes to award for our top trash collectors from the cleanup! Enjoy complimentary cereal, granola bars, protein bars, and some awesome swag!
ILACSD will provide all cleanup supplies. However, volunteers are encouraged to bring any reusable items they have such as water bottles, work gloves, and buckets. Practice zero waste habits and help cut back on the waste produced from single-use plastics at our cleanups by bringing reusable alternatives.
All volunteers must fill out a waiver form to participate and anyone under the age of 18 needs a waiver signed by their parent or guardian.
The County of San Diego in collaboration with AutoZone will be holding a free Oil Filter Exchange Event on Saturday, March 23, 2019, from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM at the AutoZone Auto Parts locations listed below.
Bring in a used oil filter and receive a new one free of charge! Free offer valid only during the event date and time at the following locations.
Locations: AutoZone | 1081 S. Mission Avenue, Fallbrook, CA 92028 | (760) 728-5974 AutoZone | 12421 Woodside Avenue, Lakeside, CA 92040 | (619) 561-5625 AutoZone | 370 Pala Street, Ramona, CA 92065 | (760) 787-0489 AutoZone | 9710 Campo Road, Spring Valley, CA 91977 | (619) 469-1605 AutoZone | 699 Sweetwater Road, Spring Valley, CA 91977 | (619) 463-1185
FREE FILTER COST NOT TO EXCEED $15.
LIMIT 1 FREE FILTER PER PERSON.
LIMIT 5 GALLONS USED OIL PER DAY, PER PERSON.
CalRecycle and the County of San Diego Department of Public Works are hosting a FREE Tire Collection Event. Bring passenger vehicle tires to properly dispose of at this collection day! This free service for all residents living in unincorporated parts of the county will be offered from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm on Saturday, October 20, 2018, at the Jacumba Library Parking Lot located at 44605 Old Hwy 80, Jacumba Hot Springs, CA 91934.
Tire Requirements:
Passenger vehicle tires only.
No tires from businesses.
Tires must be reasonably clean of dirt.
Only 9 tires per vehicle.
A limited number of tires with rims will be accepted.
Call 1-877-713-2784 to request pre-approval for tires with rims and loads of more than 9 tires.
The County of San Diego in collaboration with O’Reilly Auto Parts will be holding a free Oil FIlter Exchange Event on Saturday, September 29, 2018, from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM at the O’Reilly Auto Parts locations listed below.
Bring in a used oil filter and receive a new one free of charge! Free offer valid only during the event date and time at the following locations.
Locations:
O’Reilly Auto Parts | 812 South Main Avenue, Fallbrook, CA 92028 | (760) 723-1109
O’Reilly Auto Parts | 9732 Winter Gardens Boulevard, Lakeside, CA 92040 | (619) 561-3966
O’Reilly Auto Parts | 1935 Main Street, Ramona, CA 92065 | (760) 789-7109
O’Reilly Auto Parts | 10050 Campo Road Spring Valley, CA 91977 | (619) 670-5888
O’Reilly Auto Parts | 8375 Paradise Valley Road Spring Valley, CA 91977 | (619) 479-0198
LIMIT 1 FREE FILTER PER PERSON.
LIMIT 5 GALLONS USED OIL PER DAY, PER PERSON.
Today’s blog is part one in a series “Kids Ask the Darndest Environmental Questions!” from our environmental educator extraordinaire, Erika Bjorkquist.
During ILACSD’s “Put Waste in its Place” presentation, students learn about waste in San Diego. They are shocked to discover that Southern California leads the country in volume of trash disposed, and are excited to become part of the solution. Many students share ideas of reducing, recycling, and reusing, as solutions, to our trash problem, however, many don’t understand why people should practice these Rs. We challenge students to find ways to deal with our trash problem. One suggestion I frequently receive is, “Why don’t we just burn it?”
San Diegans dispose of 5lbs of waste per person per day!
So why don’t we burn it? In the past few years, the debate of incineration v. burial has reached a high, sparked by the success of cities like Oslo, which actually imports trash to convert into fuel for things like heating. In San Diego, and most of the west, one of the main reasons why we don’t burn is economics – it is cheaper to bury than burn. This also why we are trailing other California cities in waste diversion programs like curbside compost; the cost of burying is much lower than building new infrastructure. There are, however, arguments against the economic viability, pointing to transportation costs of waste haulers. In addition, incineration provides less energy than what can be saved through recycling. Incineration plants also have a negative reputation when it comes to air quality. While regulations are in place to prevent pollution, people still do not want it in their backyard.
Waste incinerator
All in all, while there are plenty of ideas on how to dispose of our waste, the key is prevention. It is important to minimize the amount of trash individuals produce.By rethinking purchases, like choosing products with limited packaging, refusing unnecessary items like plastic bags for a candy bar, and being ready by having carrying reusable mugs and water bottles, you will make an impact in your neighborhood, city, and state.
Waste incineration emissions
Learn more about how to reduce waste through recycling, reuse, and repair at www.WasteFreeSD.org!
We are excited to announce the addition of two Chula Vista canyons, Del Rey Canyon and Rice Canyon, that are now available through the Adopt-A-Beach Clean Canyons program! Join us as we work with the Chula Vista Charitable Foundation and the California Coastal Commission to protect our canyons—and ultimately our beaches—from the harmful effects of litter and pollution. Whether you’re an individual volunteer, part of a community group, or a business looking to make a different, you are welcome to register to adopt these canyons on the website at www.adoptsd.org.
Canyons are great places for humans and pets to enjoy nature! Here’s our Program Assistant Barbara’s dog, Wiley, on a walk in Rice Canyon.
Why should you add a canyon to your family? Here are our top 6 reasons:
1. Inland cleanups are crucial to preventing marine debris. 80% of trash that winds up in the ocean starts inland and travels through San Diego County’s 11 watersheds.
2.Be our 10,001st adopter! 10,000 volunteers a year are a part of our Adopt-A-Beach program, making it ILACSD’s most popular volunteer activity.
3. The harmful effects of debris are severe: these include negative economic and aesthetic impacts and harm and risk to human health and safety.
4. Free education presentation! as part of the program, ILACSD offers free education presentations to interested adopters as part of their first cleanup. These presentations are usually on-site at the cleanup
5.Protecting our local plants and animals: trash causesinjury and death to animals through entanglement and ingestion as well as habitat destruction. Species indigenous to these canyons, such as the San Pedro Martir coyote and the San Diego Sunflower, are threatened by polluted environments.
The San Pedro Martir coyote, local to Southern CaliforniaThe San Diego Sunflower: a native that blooms in sage scrub of these canyons.
6. Because YOU love a clean San Diego!
A bit commitment shy? If you would like to try out a canyon cleanup before deciding to adopt, you are welcome to attend ourlaunch cleanup at Del Rey Canyon on Saturday, December 14th from 9AM-12PM.
Our thanks to the Chula Vista Charitable Foundation for their financial support to expand the Clean Canyons program into Chula Vista. We look forward to increasing volunteer engagement in Chula Vista as a result of their generosity!
November 16 is Storm Drain Stenciling Day! You can help to prevent storm drain pollution in the City of San Diego through storm drain stenciling, a great program we offer sponsored by Think Blue. By marking the drains with a pollution prevention message, you are educating the public that no oil, soap, or debris should go down the drains. We’ll have a big event on November 16th at Polaris Breen Park in Mira Mesa, but check out our website for how you can sign up any day. You may be wondering why we’re running around with stencils and buckets of paint, and what a storm drain even is. Read on for some quick facts and how you can get involved (you can also check out this brief video about the program)! So why is storm drain stenciling important?Urban storm-water runoff is considered the biggest contributor to coastal marine pollution. Both human forces (irrigation runoff and illegal dumping) and natural forces (wind and rain) move trash and other pollutants into our natural waterways, storm drains, and flood control channels. By stenciling the drains with the pollution prevention message, we remind people that oil, soap, gum, food wrappers, cigarette butts, and chip bags don’t belong in the storm drains.
Here’s how a storm drain works
Umm, what IS a storm drain? The storm drain system is designed to prevent flooding by carrying rainwater from city streets to the ocean. Yet, chemicals, trash, and oil that have been spilled between rains can also enter the storm drain system. From here they enter pipelines that are not connected to the sewer system, and the water from the storm drains eventually flows, untreated, into the ocean, causing large amounts of pollution.
A storm drain (that needs stenciling!)
Why should I participate? It takes the help of our volunteers to get these storm drains stenciled; without you, this project cannot succeed! The few minutes it takes to stencil a storm drain provides years of reminders to our neighbors that they must be careful about what goes into the drains. I Love A Clean San Diego encourages you to think green and “Think Blue!” This sounds great!! How do I sign up? You can check out our website for all the details. For more information about this program, or to schedule your own stenciling project, please email lambrogi@cleansd.org.
