We aim to motivate fellow San Franciscans to take actions needed to clean our streets, beautify our neighborhoods, and encourage others to join our cause.
Be sure to check out our blog post to get some context around our purpose.
Remember, all I am offering is the truth (about trash in SF)
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A very impactful cleanup with Gateway High School students this morning, who came out to clean the neighborhood around their school in Western Addition, as part of their schoolwide service day.
They filled multiple bags of trash and left the parks, sidewalks, and streets clean.
Can’t ask for any better weather for a beach cleanup.
Back out here at Ocean Beach with the 7th grade class from Burke’s School who fanned out to pick the beach clean, taking note of the different types of litter that’s polluting the environment.
Another big impact made by the team from Trinity Life Sciences who came out to Ocean Beach for a 2nd year in a row.
They spread out along the beach and boardwalk picking up a lot of plastic microliter - easy to skip by unless you’re looking to remove it from the environment.
We organized 33 citywide cleanups in San Francisco this past weekend, with over 500 volunteers coming out to clear 540+ bags of trash.
It just happened to be the 42nd Annual Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday and SF showed up to protect the environment as a coastal city.
About 75 volunteers and 65 bags of trash collected by us, and several others groups out at Ocean Beach this morning, SF showed up for Coastal Cleanup Day!
Got interviewed by @abc7newsbayarea, hopefully some more awareness on the beach cleanups and attracting new volunteers.
Back it with students at Minerva University, an international school that spends their first year in San Francisco and who have been volunteering with us annually.
We cleaned from their residence hall along Van Ness to Aquatic Park and enjoyed this beautiful weather & city’
We got a head start on California Coastal Cleanup Day tomorrow thanks to the teams from @Riveron__ and Accordion who came out this morning to clean up Ocean Beach.
They filled a dozen bags of trash, but much more to do, so hope to see many volunteers at cleanups this weekend!
Another nice turnout for the monthly Rise & Grind Cleanup, including two new parents of a 6-week old baby boy.
8 bags of trash cleared from the surrounding neighborhood and nearby areas of Golden Gate Park. Then, some great conversation over coffee.
It’s the little things.
We’ve cleaning the medians along Geary in the Inner Richmond to see what it takes to keep them clean, and surprisingly, it doesn’t take much other than consistency.
Been doing some extra by cleaning the crosswalk of leaves, weeds, & dirt.
Cheers to the @campari for organizing a beach cleanup with us for their Campari Day of Service yesterday!
They gathered volunteers from their industry contacts in hospitality and food & beverage to come out. A great effort with several people filling 3 full bags of litter each.
It's always a good time to keep SF clean, but the amazing weather over the past weekend didn't hurt, and we had a tremendous turnout (even for our high standards) with over 600 volunteers cleaning 630+ bags of trash from our local environment.
Thank you all, let's keep going!
Pocket Garden(ing) in Laurel Village this morning.
More volunteers than needed came out to plant the end cap at Mayfair and Laurel, a spot that had been overgrown and trashed for years before the local community came out to care for it.
Much more to come, so stay tuned.
In honor of 9/11, a National Day of Service and Remembrance, and coinciding with Transit Month, we organized a cleanup along the 1 California Muni Route. Along the 5.5-mile and 5-hour journey, dozens of volunteers joined us along the way and removed 40+ trash bags of litter.
Getting prepped for Dreamforce with a great group of volunteers from @salesforce who came out to clean in SOMA this afternoon.
Got to visit the 61st floor and get some stunning views of one of the most beautiful cities in world.
Back to school with Millennium School.
Each year the new cohort of 6th graders take their turn keeping the neighborhood around their school in the Western Addition clean, including Jefferson Square Park, which has been totally transformed.
While some others rest this Labor Day Weekend, there's no letup in our efforts to keep San Francisco clean with 26 cleanups citywide attended by 420 total volunteers that picked up 450+ bags worth of litter.
The vision of a clean SF is getting clearer each day. Join the team!
First Friday = Morning Coffee Cleanup (Inner Richmond) sponsored by 70 year old Cinderella Bakery.
A bakers dozen of volunteers cleared 16 trash bags from the neighborhood.
Cinderella is sponsoring another monthly cleanup at their new location in the Mission starting October.
Masonic Cleanup Crew - 10 nameless & faceless volunteers collected 20 bags of trash from the neighborhood surrounding Trader Joe’s and 6 garden bags of leaves & dirt from the @SFMTA_Muni parking lot on Geary.
SF doing SF things. 29 citywide cleanups this past weekend, with 450 volunteers removing 470+ bags of trash from Bayview to Chinatown, Ocean Beach to South Beach, and neighborhoods in-between.
Cleanups work and transform neighborhoods. Play your part in getting SF clean!