Join Heal the Bay on September 20, 2025 for our biggest day of volunteer action! 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. Whether you want to tidy up the mountains, better your neighborhood, or spruce up the beach, we’ve got you covered. Stay tuned for updates!
The 2025 Coastal Clean Up Day Poster Contest is Open!
Calling all artists! Heal the Bay is thrilled to announce our 2025 Coastal Cleanup Day Poster Competition! This year’s theme is “Rebuild with Resilience.” How do you envision the future of LA? What changes do you hope to see in your community? How can we build a climate-resilient future? Express your vision through original artwork inspired by this theme!
The winning artist will receive $500 and have their artwork featured with credit on the official Coastal Cleanup Day poster, merchandise, and across Heal the Bay’s social media.
We welcome submissions in any medium and style from artists of all ages and skill levels. Artwork must be entirely original and we request artists refrain from the use of generative AI.
Ready to make your mark for a cleaner future? Apply before May 31st for the chance to become our official 2025 CCD Artist!
*Please note this Google Form requires a Gmail sign-in.
Please send any questions about the Coastal Clean Up Day Artist Contest to ccd@healthebay.org.
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.