Join your neighbors for the annual coastal cleanup effort and pitch in to help clean up Richmond’s shoreline and marshlands Saturday morning, September 16 at Marina Bay or at Point Isabel or Point Pinole Regional Shoreline Parks. Read on for details.

Coastal Cleanup Day is a statewide-sponsored event that happens every year in late September. Participants will help rid shoreline areas of trash and debris. Of special concern are the plastics that collect along the shores because of the dangers they pose to wildlife.

In addition to being a fun activity for the whole family, Coastal Cleanup Day is about taking responsibility for the health of our Bay shoreline. It's about showing people that everyone's efforts count, and that collectively we can create positive change. It's about creating awareness that we should all tread lightly on the environment - leave it cleaner than you found it by picking up the debris you see around you.

Wear old clothes, sturdy shoes and bring work gloves to pitch in at any of the following sites on Richmond's Shoreline: