Coastal Cleanup Day is the world’s largest volunteer-driven environmental event, mobilizing millions of people across the world to protect our planet! In Los Angeles County, Heal the Bay proudly leads this monumental effort, organizing over 50 cleanup sites spanning our coasts, rivers, parks, and dive and kayak sites. Our amazing volunteers picked up more than 18,000 pounds of trash last year!

Save the date for Saturday, September 20th, 2025, from 9 a.m. to noon, as we once again welcome more than 7,000 volunteers to help tackle Los Angeles’s marine debris crisis! Please contact ccd@healthebay.org with any questions.

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About Coastal Cleanup Day, LA County:

Coastal Cleanup Day is an international day of action to protect our oceans, watersheds, and wildlife from trash and plastic pollution. In collaboration with the California Coastal Commission and the Ocean Conservancy, Heal the Bay has proudly been the Los Angeles County Coordinator of this event for the past 36 years. Choose one of the many clean up sites throughout the county. Whether you want to tidy up the mountains, better your neighborhood, or spruce up the beach, we’ve got you covered!

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CCD 2024 Was a Success from Summit to Sea!

Heal the Bay is proud to announce our 2024 Coastal Cleanup Day Stats.

On Saturday, September 21, 2024, 6,983 volunteers collected 18,296 pounds of trash and 913.5 pounds of recyclables from 62 beach, river, underwater, and trail cleanup sites! Check out our 2024 CCD Wrap-Up Blog for a detailed breakdown of our county-wide and State-wide impact.

Download the 2024 Wrap-Up Book

Support Our Mission

Celebrate Coastal Cleanup Day with our official 2024 Poster.

Heal the Bay is thrilled to name Los Angeles-based photographer Tracey Redman as our 2024 Coastal Cleanup Day artist!

From the Artist:

“Shoreline is a project made in collaboration with the landscape, the ocean, and my daughter. Through experimenting with the cameraless technique of Cyanotypes, my work looks at the environmental issue of plastic waste and aims to bring awareness to a young audience of the effects that this waste has on our ocean and marine life, hopefully educating a youthful audience about plastic pollution in the ocean to spark positive changes in consumer habits.

The permanence of plastic pollution will be the legacy we leave for our children unless we start involving them in learning ways to look after our planet. Shoreline is an intimate and visual conversation with my daughter and her generation about educating and teaching them about the fragility of our environment.

This project addresses ideas of permanence, the unknown, and human connection to–as well as the impact on–the environment. By creating small folding pocketbooks, 3-dimensional sculptures, fascicules and collages, the work holds imprints of nature, the ocean and the waste that it holds within. The hope is to engage our children and imprint the idea of how they hold the key to all of this.

The overriding theme of this project has been to strive to produce a sense of movement and life in the work to create a deeper emotional response from the viewer. Taking the Cyanotype process from a functional, practical process to a place of creative visual storytelling to create living, breathing pieces that foster a deeper meaning and explanation.”

Coastal Clean Up Day 2024 was made possible by our sponsors, partners, and organizers. Thank you: Porsche, Pacific Premier Bank, Kaiser Permanente, Ocean Conservancy, Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, Water Replenishment District, Water for LA, Color Me Mine.