Meet Nicole, new ILACSD educator

Today’s blog post comes from Nicole McAleer, our newest environmental educator.

 

I recently joined the I Love A Clean San Diego team as an Environmental Educator. I am really enthusiastic about environmental education and, through ILACSD, I am able to bring my passion and energy to schools all over San Diego County. I have a lovely mobile classroom equipped with high tech gear and cool props to help me present information about watersheds and storm drain pollution to school group of all ages. The students really enjoy taking part in hands-on learning activities like “Sum of Parts”, where they see how a piece of trash can travel through a watershed to the ocean. It gets the kids all riled up to see how misplaced trash can alter their beach experience. I also encourage each student to get involved in preserving the environment through incorporation of the “3 R’s” in their daily lives and participation in I Love A Clean San Diego’s cleanup events. Students have the opportunity to sign up to become more involved in cleanup events on the spot. The students are always directed to the cleanup site closest to their school. More than once students were unaware that there was a waterway or canyon so close that needed their help! I’m always impressed that kids want to get involved and are willing to make simple changes in their daily lives to protect and preserve the environment. Having such strong and dedicated a volunteer base is what has enable ILACSD to remove about 500,000 of trash from San Diego beaches and inland waterways annually.

Prior to working at I Love A Clean San Diego, I earned my Masters of Arts in Teaching and have worked as a Nature and Environmental Educator. I am an avid outdoor enthusiast with a passion for the environment and belief in service to her community.

Here’s Nicole acting as a site captain for Coastal Cleanup Day

In my free time I enjoy spending time being active outdoors. I love hiking, biking, kayaking swimming, running and walking my two dogs (I always remember to scoop the poop). I also love the beach! My love of the outdoors and appreciation of plants and wildlife is part of my inspiration to educate future generations about the importance of protecting the environment. I have learned a lot of new information while working at ILACSD. I was shocked to see that litter in the form of small cigarette butts has such a large impact on water quality in addition to the high quantities they are always found at each clean up event. I stay current on what is going on in the local community through participation in professional development and recently participated in water quality monitoring with Coastkeepers and attended workshops hosted by the Children in Nature Collaborative.  I plan to continue learning new techniques that will inspire kids to embrace their natural surroundings.

I am proud to be part of the I Love A Clean San Diego family and hope to see you at a cleanup or presentation soon!

Get a free oil filter and save our local environment!

Today’s post comes from ILACSD’s Hotline Assistant, Barbara Lopez!

Many of us know that it is important to recycle used motor oil, but did you know that recycling the oil filter is just as important? One used oil filter contains about 10 ounces of used oil, even after draining, and therefore should not be thrown in the trash. By recycling your oil filter, you prevent used oil from entering our landfills, our water supply, and our environment. Also, recycling an oil filter keeps about one pound of reusable steel from going to the landfill. According to CalRecycle, if each oil filter sold in California was recycled, nearly 67 million pounds of steel would be diverted from landfills; that’s enough steel to build three large sports stadiums!

To encourage residents to recycle their old oil filters, the County of San Diego, Department of Public Works and I Love A Clean San Diego will be holding oil filter exchange events on March 23, 2013. Residents of the unincorporated county can visit one of the participating AutoZone locations, bring in a used filter and receive a new one free. In addition to oil filters, residents can also bring in up to five gallons of uncontaminated used motor oil to recycle.

If you are unable to attend these events, there are other options available to properly recycle used oil filters and motor oil. Some communities offer a free home pick up of used motor oil and filters. Also, there are nearly 300 Certified Used Oil Collection Centers in San Diego County that accept up to five gallons of uncontaminated used motor oil; many of these collection centers will also accept oil filters for recycling. If you have motor oil that is contaminated or more than five gallons of uncontaminated motor oil, visit a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility for proper disposal. To see if free home pick up of used motor oil is available in your community or to find a Certified Collection Center near you, visit WasteFreeSD.org.

Upcoming Oil Filter Exchange Events
All events will be held on Saturday March 23, 2013 from 10am-2pm. Limit one free filter per person. Free offer valid during specified date, time, and location.

Fallbrook
AutoZone at 1081 S. Mission Ave., Fallbrook 92028

Lakeside
AutoZone at 12421 Woodside Ave., Lakeside 92040

Ramona
AutoZone at 370 Pala St., Ramona 92065

Spring Valley
AutoZone at 699 Sweetwater Rd., Spring Valley 91977
AutoZone at 9710 Campo Rd., Spring Valley 91978

To find out about additional recycling events, visit WasteFreeSD.org today!

ILACSD takes top honors for keeping butts off the beach

Today’s post comes from ILACSD’s Development & Marketing Coordinator, Jessica Green!

As our volunteers know all too well, cigarette butts are a huge litter problem here in San Diego and the most common item we pick up at cleanup events. Earlier this month, we were excited to receive first place honors for our Cigarette Litter Prevention Program during Keep America Beautiful’s 60th anniversary National Conference in Washington, DC!

ILACSD’s Executive Director, Pauline Martinson (right) and Director of Community Events, Natalie Roberts (left) with KAB’s CEO, Matt McKenna.

The CLPP works to reduce cigarette litter by raising awareness about the issue, placing ash receptacles in places where people commonly gather to smoke, such as entrances to public buildings and busy street corners, and distributing pocket ashtrays to smokers.

Defeating cigarette butt litter is a huge undertaking, and we couldn’t do it without our strong partnerships with local businesses, community organizations and the San Diego Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation. Working together has allowed us to significantly reduce the flow of cigarette butts into storm drains and eventually to the ocean.

To give you a quick glance at the impact the CLPP has had here in San Diego, here are a few stats from local areas where the program is currently in place:

In La Jolla, CLPP ashcans collect an average of 31 butts per day. Volunteers collected 11,708 butts from 10 ashcans in a 3 month time period and have seen a 34% decrease in littered cigarette butts in that area.

In Point Loma, more than 800 cigarette butts were collected from 6 ashcans in the first month after installation. We’ve seen a 58% decrease in littered cigarette butts in that area.

In La Mesa, one of our most recent expansion areas, we’ve seen an 84% decrease in cigarette butt litter and the ashcans collect an average of 180 cigarette butts per ashcan, per month. That’s a total of 3,800 in 3 months.

In North Park we’ve seen 24% decrease in cigarette butt litter and in Oceanside a 74% decrease in cigarette butt litter in target area.

CLPP ash can in La Mesa

In addition to being recognized for our CLPP, ILACSD has a long history with Keep America Beautiful dating back to the 1960′s. ILACSD, which back then was the War Against Litter Committee, received many honors from KAB in the 60′s before becoming part of the KAB Affiliate network in the 1970′s. Keep America Beautiful is best known for their “Crying Indian” PSA which first aired on Earth Day in 1971 and featured American Indian actor, Iron Eyes Cody.

In case you weren’t around back then, or just want a reminder of this little gem, here’s the full PSA for your viewing pleasure:

New in 2013: Tsunami Sweepers

Today’s post comes from ILACSD’s Community Events Coordinator, Lexi Ambrogi!

Here at I Love A Clean San Diego, we love a good reason to get out and clean up our communities. Whether it’s a street-sweep cleanup to prevent trash from washing down our storm drains and out to sea, or a post-holiday beach cleanup to pick up after 4^th of July beachgoers, we are always looking for practical and meaningful reasons to inspire our volunteers to keep San Diego beautiful.

This Saturday, January 26, we’ll be kicking off a new series of beach cleanups at Torrey Pines State Beach called Tsunami Sweepers. In addition to combing the shoreline for standard beach litter (cigarette butts, plastic bags, Styrofoam scraps), our volunteers will be searching for a very specific types of debris.

Tsunami debris in Santa Cruz. Source.

Tsunami debris in Oregon. Source.

Some coastal communities have already seen the beginnings of what will surely be an influx of trash washing ashore: a fridge and buoys in Hawaii, docks in Washington and Oregon, and more.

ILACSD has teamed up with the California Coastal Commission to host a series of cleanup events in 2013 that are designed to help us track and understand more about the debris from this tsunami.

Volunteers who join us for this series of events will be briefed on what to look for in identifying debris from Japan (Japanese writing, or large pieces of shipping or building materials, to name a few).

If you’re interested in attending this cleanup and joining in the effort to help scientists understand more about this natural disaster and how it will impact your community, email Lexi Ambrogi at lambrogi@cleansd.org to sign up.

If you can’t make it out this weekend, don’t worry—we’ll be hosting several more of these events throughout 2013. Hope to see you there!

With Your Help, ILACSD Cleaned Up in 2012!

Every year our goal here at ILACSD is to get more San Diegans involved in making our beautiful city cleaner and healthier and to protect the San Diego way of life we all know and love. 2012 was no exception, and more of you came out to volunteer in your community than ever before!

So how did we do in 2012?

More Education. We know that the only way we can make sure San Diego stays clean long into the future, is if we educate our kids today about how their everyday actions affect the world around them. In 2012, our Educators gave 531 presentations – over 10 a week! – to more than 37,000 youth and adults. That mean our donors and supporters (that’s you!) helped us reach out to 20% more San Diegans than we did in 2011!

More Volunteers. Volunteering gives residents pride in their community and empowers them to take responsibility for keeping it clean. In 2012, more than 30,000 of you came out to lend a hand in keeping your neighborhoods, beaches, canyons and creeks clean! Cleanups are no walk in the park, picking up trash is dirty work and we couldn’t do it without dedicated volunteers like you.

Less Trash. It might seem like with more volunteers, we should be picking up more trash right? Well less trash is actually great news. It means that the areas we’re cleaning up are staying cleaner year after year! It also means that our two pronged approach, cleanups and litter prevention through education and resources like WasteFreeSD.org, are making an impact on not only our local environment, but on the people who live, work, and play throughout San Diego. Still, 359,000 pounds of trash and debris were picked up by our volunteers this year, and that’s no small feat!

…but More Recycling. Even though volunteers picked up less trash in 2012, a higher percentage of that trash was recyclable to the tune of about 93,000 pounds. Recycling more debris keeps it out of our landfills and saves resources when it’s made into something new. If you want to know more about why recycling is important, check out the Recycle 101 section of WasteFreeSD.org!

Results like these don’t happen overnight. It takes a hard working staff, dedicated volunteers, and the financial support of donors, foundations, local businesses, and local government all working together for one purpose: a cleaner, healthier San Diego!

We’re looking forward to working with all of our partners and volunteers in 2013 as we lead up to celebrating ILACSD’s 60th birthday in 2014!

WasteFreeSD.org Gets a New Look for the New Year

As you may know I Love A Clean San Diego, in partnership with the County of San Diego, operates San Diego’s official recycling website and call center which refers thousands of residents to where in San Diego they can recycle or dispose of just about anything. From broken surfboards to wine corks, cooking oil to bridesmaids dresses, WasteFreeSD.org makes recycling in San Diego quick and convenient.

New look, same great resource!

San Diego County can be a tricky place to navigate when trying to figure out where to recycle some things. All 18 jurisdictions in San Diego have different rules depending on where you live, which is why WasteFreeSD.org uses your zip code to find out exactly where you can take your items to be recycled or disposed of properly. By giving residents an easy way to get rid of things they don’t want, WasteFreeSD.org diverts tons of waste from local landfills, encourages people to be more eco-friendly, and prevents illegal dumping from damaging our local community.

What’s New?

New Look. It’s cleaner, it’s shinier, and it’s got a lot more useful recycling information for you all in one place.

Easier to Use. You can now start typing in the search field and it auto-fills the available options for you! On the results page, there is also a new map feature that shows you where the recycling centers are in your area.

Updated Resources. From why recycling is important for our local community, to what exactly you can put in your blue bin at home, the new WasteFreeSD.org is chock full of information and even short videos from our ILACSD staff.

En Español. The WasteFreeSD hotline has been bi-lingual for some time now, but that was the only option for Spanish speaking San Diegans to get the recycling information they need. WasteFreeSD.org En Español is a great new feature and even includes a video from our Educator, Monica, on what can and can’t be recycled in your blue bin!

WasteFreeSD.org is still your go-to resource for recycling and hazardous waste disposal information in San Diego County. The new look and feel just make it even easier to navigate! We want to get the word out about this great one stop recycling resource, which is an extremely important tool to help keep our local community clean and encourage recycling.

Why is WasteFreeSD.org Important?

The average person throws away 4.5 pounds of trash a day, adding up to more than 1,400 pounds per person a year. We million plus San Diegans are piling our waste high. In fact, it has been in the news recently that our current pace of trash accumulation will likely cause the local landfill to fill up within the decade.

Miramar Landfill

We hope that by telling people about WasteFreeSD.org, we will help them make better decisions about what they throw in the trash.

Go check out the all new WasteFreeSD.org today and help us get to word out by telling your friends and family too!

Used cooking oil woes? WasteFreeSD.org has you covered!

Today’s post comes from your clean water ambassador, Captain Wetiquette.

Deep frying your turkey this Thankgiving? While it might lead to a delicious meal, what are you going to do with all that used cooking oil? Luckily, WasteFreeSD.org has the 411 on what those of us in the trash industry refer to as F.O.G. (that’s fats, oils, and grease for all you non-trash talking folks).

With the holiday season drawing near, let this serve as a reminder that fats, oils, and grease from cooking should not be poured down kitchen sinks or drains! Instead, residents should accumulate their used cooking oil for proper disposal at a local collection facility. To find the closest drop off location, residents are encouraged to visit WasteFreeSD.org

When cooking oil is discarded into your kitchen sink, it accumulates inside the sewer pipes making it difficult for wastewater to flow freely to the wastewater treatment plant. This includes wastewater draining from toilets and showers. When wastewater cannot make its way through the sewer pipes, it overflows into our homes, streets, lawns, and storm drains, eventually making its way to the ocean. These results are the equivalent of a sewage spill, and can cause substantial damage to the local environment. Eww!!

Thankfully, there are a number of collection sites that accept cooking oil from the public in San Diego County. For unincorporated County residents, there are collection sites at Ramona Disposal, as well as EDCO facilities in San Marcos and Lemon Grove. City of San Diego residents may take their used cooking oil to Miramar Recycling Center, provided that it is less than 30 quarts. There is no fee associated with recycling used cooking oil and some facilities are even able to turn this used cooking oil into fuel for cars and other machines. For more information on these centers, visit WasteFreeSD.org.

Exercise Your Right to Vote…One More Time!

Today’s blog post comes from our Director of Development & Marketing, Morgan Justice-Black.

I know what you’re thinking…someone please spare me from another voting campaign!

While the November elections might be over for some, things are just heating up for us here at I Love A Clean San Diego. We’ve been selected as one of eight environmental nonprofits battling it out for a $25,000 donation from San Diego Gas & Electric. That’s right, we’ve got a 1 in 8 shot to win enough money to educate an additional 4,000 kids this school year! But we need your help to get there!

Yes, I understand your slight fatigue from being asked day after day to participate in someone’s online voting campaign. Whether it’s cutest baby (ok, we get it, you think that your kid is the cutest one out there), to pet of the week, to talent competitions, there is no lack of requests for online voting. In fact, even the term “voting” makes me slightly nauseous after enduring months of campaigning leading up to the November 6^th election.

Please take a moment to do these quick and easy steps to help ILACSD win this thing!

First way to vote:

1. Visit this link

2. Type the text into the box as prompted.

3. Scroll down to ILACSD’s video (top row on right), and click on the bubble next to the word “vote”

4. Then scroll back up to the text box that you typed into and click the box labeled “vote” in the grey shaded area.

If you have Facebook, there is a second way to vote:

1. Go to the Earth8 Facebook page and “like” their page

2. Click on this link to go to the voting page

3. Follow directions 2-4 from above.

Remember, you can vote once a day from now until December 6th!

And in case you need a little more encouragement, take it from this guy who at 8 years old is pretty insistent on saving the environment. At an ILACSD cleanup he told one of our staff members “You know, I would risk my life if it meant a greener earth!” We aren’t asking you to risk your life, just take a few moments of your time to vote for ILACSD every day!

At 8 years old, he’s ready to risk his life for a healthier environment!

Coastal Cleanup Day 2012: Let’s Make it Official!

Today’s post comes from ILACSD’s Marketing Intern, Brian McComb!

Okay, the poundage has been tabulated, the registration forms summed up. Our sunburns have been nursed and the totals are finally in! Before we give you all the glorious details you crave, let’s all promise to recognize some of the more intensive endeavors that came about on this year’s Coastal Cleanup Day. After the numbers, be sure to check out the rundown of all the special projects that were able to undertaken thanks to Lowe’s!

Now without further ado, here are the fruits of your labor from Coastal Cleanup Day on September 15^th, 2012.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE! Rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble (okay, maybe a little ado)…

Through your combined efforts at 88 different cleanup sites across San Diego County, this year 7,200 volunteers worked together to remove 126,000 lbs of trash and debris in just 3 hours time!

Volunteers found more than just bottles and cans!

Holy monkeys that’s a lot of poundage! The best part is, this actually is less trash than we saw last year. Translation? Your hard work is making a big difference right here in your own backyard, we are starting to see less trash year after year! You never know what you are going to find at cleanup events like this, some of the more of unusual items reported by volunteers this year included an entire trash bag full of popcorn, a bubblegum machine, and even a brand new TV.

More than just picking up trash.

Now here is where you promised to pay attention. Many of you know that you were out there doing way more than just picking up trash. Volunteers removed graffiti, built trails, mulched, planted trees and other native species and removed invasive plant species at the following locations. These fantastic projects were made possible by a grant from Lowe’s through Keep America Beautiful and truly transformed the local landscape:

San Dieguito Lagoon
Manzanita Canyon - Volunteers also provided maintenance of the firebreak between the canyon and local homes.
Cooper Canyon
Serra Mesa, Library Canyon and Serra Mesa Recreation Center
Clairemont, Mount Etna Canyon
Hillcrest, Marston Canyon
Chollas Creek at 54th Street
Lakeside, Lindo Lake
National City, Paradise Creek - Restoration of the wetlands and upland creek bed.
Chula Vista, Salt Creek Park

Phew, that was a lot of work! Now there might not be a lot that is great about knocking out work in the 100-degree heat, but we are already starting to see the benefits of all your efforts! Let’s keep winning this battle, and move ever closer to a waste free San Diego!

Captain Wetiquette, ILACSD’s clean water mascot, was so happy at CCD!

From War to Love: ILACSD Evolves to Protect San Diego’s Environment

Today’s post comes from ILACSD’s Marketing Intern, Brian McComb!

I Love A Clean San Diego has deep roots, helping to make and keep San Diego clean for many a decade.  As we push ever closer to the 60^th anniversary of our passionate organization, ILACSD takes a journey back in time to see how everything came about. Here’s a thoughtful look back at some of the events that have shaped our history…

Inception

To find our organization’s launch point, we turn the hands of time backwards all the way to the year 1954. Although the year might be most famous for the  Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio wedding or for the 30-minute documentary, “A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy,” by newsman Edward Murrow, San Diego was beginning to make some history of its own.

Fueled by the aviation industry during WWII, growth in San Diego had surged during the two prior decades. As communities grew across much of the County, litter emerged as a large and pressing problem. The County and City responded with the creation of the “San Diego City and County War Against Litter Committee”, ILACSD’s first incarnation.

WAR

litter makes headlines

In 1960, the lead up to the official “War Against Litter Year” all started with a frustrated phone call…

On the afternoon of Wednesday September 28^th, 1960, “John Cook phoned the Evening Tribune and reported that a trash can on Broadway near 7^th Avenue was overflowing onto the sidewalk. Cook, of a jewelry store at 647 Broadway, said the can had been overflowing for several days.”

San Diego’s litter and subsequent frustration had hit critical mass, and outcry for a full on anti-litter campaign began to gain traction.

“War Against Litter Year”

At the end of November of that year county law officers had met with anti-litter committee officials to map a uniform litter code to bring about effective enforcement in combating the litter problem.

The San Diego Police department, the California Highway Patrol, and most of the 11 incorporated cities within the county were represented at the meeting.

By the end of the year a full-fledged “War Against Litter” campaign had been launched, and there were plans to kick off the new year right.  An official resolution proclaiming the week of January 14, 1961 as “War Against Litter Week” and the year of 1961 as “War Against Litter Year” had been passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Diego.

The year would also saw the introduction of the organization’s first mascot, Pelican Pete, and the decade would see many more doctrines of war.

Promoting Plastic Bags?

Pelican Pete Says…

Ironically, starting in 1962 the War Against Litter Committee actually encouraged people to carry plastic ‘litter-bags’ in their cars.

At the time, paper litter was a far larger problem than the plastic litter we see today. Oh how the times have changed.

Everyone’s a Critic

Contrasting the public support for a litter war, on May 19^th, 1963 there was an article published in the San Diego Union about the unsightly trash receptacles in Horton Plaza. The dean of USC’s architecture program is quoted singling out the green trash cans in the plaza as “a disgrace,” and an example of the “woeful condition of the heart of San Diego.”

everyone’s a critic

Apparently everyone’s a critic, as pointed out by Park Director Les Earnest, quoted in the article saying “trash barrels are always a problem… If we took them out, people would complain. If we leave them in, someone complains.”

Although you can’t please everyone all of the time, apparently we can please the President of the United States. In 1968 the War Against Litter Committee was commended by President Lyndon B. Johnson for partnerships and beautification efforts at the border in San Ysidro.

SLOBB & I Love A Clean San Diego

The 1970s saw the first glimmer of our current name. Although board members and staff had developed the new slogan “Stop Littering Our Bays and Beaches” (or SLOBB for short), the phrase “I Love A Clean San Diego” also started showing up in literature.

In 1970 the SLOBB campaign won numerous awards and even spawned a Miss SLOBB pageant. At the time, SLOBB was far more prevalent for the organization’s anti-litter campaign. However in 1980 the slogan “I Love A Clean San Diego” became incorporated into the organization’s new name, as the former “War Against Litter Committee” officially became “I Love A Clean San Diego County.”

Welcome to Modernity

Keeping America Beautiful

In 1989, ILACSDC merges with the San Diego Ecology Center, joining two leading environmental organizations together and giving rise to our current form. The rise in outreach and connectivity expanded rapidly, and later that year ILACSDC participated in their first ever Coastal Cleanup Day.

In 1995 ILACSDC received the Excellence in Solid Waste Education award from the Solid Waste Association of North America. Also during this year, the organization officially shortened its name from “I Love A Clean San Diego County” to “I Love A Clean San Diego” (ILACSD).

Blasting through the Millennium

In 2003 ILACSD takes a page out of the history books during Earth Month, organizing its first large-scale countywide cleanup. The resulting “Creek to Bay” cleanup was a resounding success with almost 2,000 volunteers removing 25,000 pounds of debris. The cleanup has since become an annual event across San Diego County.

I Love A Clean San Diego is awarded with a proclamation from the City of Chula Vista in 2007, recognizing its coordination of the annual Beautify Chula Vista Day. The event boasted close to 1,000 volunteers and was the most successful in history. As a Keep America Beautiful affiliate, ILACSD received the President’s Circle Recognition Award for achieving all standards of excellence as an affiliate.

WasteFreeSD.org

WastFreeSD.org

As ILACSD gets ever more connected, in 2009 they record nearly 21,000 requests for waste items made to the innovative new one-stop recycling resource, WasteFreeSD.org. The valuable resource diverts immeasurable waste from San Diego’s already over extended landfills, and prevents incidents of illegal dumping that contaminates our community.

2012

Coastal Cleanup Day

On September 15th of 2012,  I Love A Clean San Diego headed up the 28th annual Coastal Cleanup Day. I Love A Clean San Diego had been co-coordinating Coastal Cleanup Day in San Diego for 10 years, but this year took on the event as the sole coordinator making ILACSD the go-to organization for countywide cleanup events. This year’s Coastal Cleanup Day event had astounding turnouts, seeing over 7,200 volunteers collect over 121,000 lbs. of waste across 88 different cleanup sites in San Diego County.

Pressing On

I Love A Clean San Diego, through its many incarnations, has seen a lot of litter over the years. Through the hard work and dedication of its volunteers and staff, the organization has been able to gain the upper hand in many of the county’s most visible areas. We have matured and developed a lot since 1954, and our constant vigilance has allowed us to continue to expand our efforts, reaching all parts of San Diego County. The war is far from over however, and our fight against litter takes us further inland every year.

During the month of October, we set our sights southward towards our next biggest obstacle. South San Diego County seems to be a litter stronghold, a haven that harbors large and unpredictable cleanups. Although this could be considered the frontlines in our war against litter, this remains an area where volunteerism has dwindled in the past.  We are excited to once again partner with Wildcoast for October’s Tijuana River Action Month.

Become part of ILACSD’s rich history by volunteering at one of our multiple TRAM cleanups on October 6th and October 20th, or take part in Beautify Chula Vista Day on October 13th! Visit our website to find out more, and join is in our mission to keep San Diego beautiful!