Save the date for Heal the Bay’s 35th year of Coastal Cleanup Day! Help us reach our goal of removing 2 million pounds of trash in LA County! Join us on September 21, 2024, from 9 AM to 12 PM for a day of powerful community action.
Get Involved
Become a CCD Site Captain: Here in Los Angeles County, Heal the Bay coordinates Coastal Cleanup Day efforts across over 50 coastal, inland, dive, and kayak cleanup sites. Become a Coastal Cleanup Day Site Captain and lead a Heal the Bay Cleanup of your own! Learn More.
Have questions regarding the big day? Our Coastal Cleanup Team and veteran Beach Captain volunteers are here to help you make your cleanup a success. Email us at CCD@healthebay.org.
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 Cleanup Day 2023 was a Success from Summit to Sea!
September 27, 2023
Heal the Bay is proud to announce our 2023 Coastal Cleanup Day Stats.
On Saturday September 23, 2023, more than 7,000 Heal the Bay volunteers removed over 16,000 lbs. of trash and 400 lbs. of recycling from 97 miles of beach, river, underwater, and trail cleanup sites! Check out our 2023 CCD Wrap-Up Blog for a detailed break-down by the numbers of our County wide and State-wide impact.
Check out our Coastal Cleanup Day 2023 highlight stats here.
DOWNLOAD THE 2023 WRAP-UP BOOK