SAUSALITO CA - SEPTEMBER 23: Cub Scout Cody Sturtevant, 7, with pack 34 in Mill Valley finds a dish while picking up trash on Coastal Cleanup Day at Horseshoe Cove in Sausalito, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal)
SAUSALITO CA - SEPTEMBER 23: Stephen Kasierski with the National Park Service gives talks with volunteers about safety before they head out to pick up trash along Horseshoe Cove in Fort Baker on Coastal Cleanup Day at in Sausalito, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal)
SAUSALITO CA - SEPTEMBER 23: Cub Scout Parker Firmage, 8, from pack 34 in Mill Valley picks up trash on Coastal Cleanup Day at Horseshoe Cove in Sausalito, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal)
SAUSALITO CA - SEPTEMBER 23: Cub Scout Isaac White, 7, with pack 34 from Mill Valley picks up trash along Horseshoe Cove with his dad Doug White in Fort Baker on Coastal Cleanup Day at in Sausalito, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. The event was organized by Stephen Kasierski with the National Park Service. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal)
SAUSALITO CA - SEPTEMBER 23: Volunteers gather to listen to Stephen Kasierski with the National Park Service before heading out to pick up trash along Horseshoe Cove in Fort Baker on Coastal Cleanup Day at in Sausalito, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. Volunteers included adults, children and Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts from Mill Valley. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal)
State, county and federal agencies collaborated with local volunteers Saturday to hold the 39th annual Coastal Cleanup Day, which included dozens of sites in Marin.
The campaign organizes groups to collect debris from beaches and shorelines from 9 a.m. to noon. Cleanup efforts in Marin were scheduled at various sites in the Marin Headlands, Sausalito, Tiburon, Mill Valley, the lower Ross Valley, San Rafael, Novato, Tomales Bay and the Pacific shore, according to the California Coastal Commission.
In addition to the state commission, other organizing agencies included the National Park Service and the Marin County parks department.
