If you're seeing this, HELLO! I have just started this project and am looking for your opinion and SUPPORT. Come say hi :)
This area is actually getting cleaned right now! Most plastic pollution reaches the ocean long before it hits the sand, so the cleanup doesn’t stop at the beach.
Support helps keep the project moving with gear, supplies, travel, cleanup time, and ongoing ocean-focused environmental giving.
Chase Palm Park - Santa Barbara 5/8/26
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This project started pretty simply.
I kept noticing trash everywhere. Beaches, parking lots, sidewalks, storm drains, neighborhoods near the coast. A lot of it was plastic. A lot of it looked like it had been sitting there for weeks. And most of the time, people just walked past it. So I started picking it up.
What began as a personal habit slowly turned into a real cleanup project. Not a nonprofit. Not a corporation. Not a perfectly polished environmental campaign. Just a guy with a grabber, trash bags, a wagon, and a growing belief that small consistent action actually matters.
We're not trying to get rich cleaning beaches. We're doing it for the love of the game, and for the hate of the plastics...
We cap proceeds at $300 per day for gas, gear, food, and time. If support goes beyond that, the extra gets donated. No matter what, 10% is donated off the top.
Targeting plastic fragments, drink containers, snack wrappers, fishing line, and shoreline debris commonly left behind around parking lots, volleyball courts, and busy public access paths near East Beach.
Donations received: $260
Cleanup time: 6 hours
Environmental donation: $26.00
Focused on removing bottle caps, foam pieces, plastic packaging, fishing debris, and scattered litter accumulating near surf zones, picnic areas, and high-traffic beach entry points at Leadbetter Beach.
Donations received: $120
Cleanup time: 6 hours
Environmental donation: $12.00
Focused on plastic fragments, food wrappers, bottle caps, cigarette butts, and ocean debris collecting near the promenade, surf break access points, and heavily trafficked beachfront walkways.
Donations received: $75
Cleanup time: 4 hours
Environmental donation: $7.50
Plastic pollution travels through streets, storm drains, rivers, and beaches before eventually reaching the ocean. Today, plastic can be found on coastlines, in waterways, and scattered throughout everyday environments.
Most pollution is not giant piles of trash. It is the small stuff. Bottle caps, foam, wrappers, fishing line, broken plastic fragments, and everyday litter that slowly spreads across beaches and neighborhoods.
Plastic does not break down like natural materials. Instead, it slowly fragments into smaller and smaller pieces that continue circulating through the environment for years.
Birds, fish, turtles, and other marine animals often mistake plastic for food. This can cause injury, starvation, and long-term harm to ocean ecosystems.
Much of the trash found near the ocean does not begin there. Wind, rain, traffic, and storm runoff carry litter from parking lots, streets, and neighborhoods directly toward the coast.
