Help keep our beaches clean

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Being Responsible at the Beach
Plan ahead and bring a trash bag with you on your next trip. If you carry it in, carry it out. If you take food or beverages to the beach - please keep your area of the beach clean.

Help Eliminate Boating Waste
When you go boating, don’t empty your waste into the water.

Always Clean up after your Pets
Pet waste contains harmful bacteria and organisms that can spread disease. Pick up pet waste, seal it in a plastic bag, and dispose of it in trash cans. Don't hose waste into storm drains. Help keep your neighborhood and your pet healthy and clean.

Additional Resources:

Clean Beaches Council
The United States coast, where the land and rivers meet the sea and great waters, is a special, valuable and complex place. Coastal recreation, maritime commerce, and jobs such as fishing make the coast a vital part of the American way of life. While progress has been made in recent years to protect this great national resource, the safety, health, and environmental conditions of many areas continues to deteriorate. Clean Beaches Council was established to seek solutions to these problems.
www.cleanbeaches.org

Oceana: Protecting the World's Oceans
Oceana campaigns to protect and restore the world’s oceans. Our teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life. Global in scope and dedicated to conservation, Oceana has campaigners based in North America (Washington, DC; Juneau, AK; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; Portland, Oregon; the Mid-Atlantic and New England), Europe (Madrid, Spain; Brussels, Belgium) and South America (Santiago, Chile). More than 200,000 members and e-activists in over 150 countries have already joined Oceana.
www.oceana.org

The Ocean Conservancy: Advocates of wild, healthy oceans.
The Ocean Conservancy promotes healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems and opposes practices that threaten ocean life and human life. Through research, education, and science-based advocacy, The Ocean Conservancy informs, inspires, and empowers people to speak and act on behalf of the oceans. In all its work, The Ocean Conservancy strives to be the world's foremost advocate for the oceans.
www.oceanconservancy.org

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