Earth Day Cleanup Adds Up

Earth Day Cleanup Adds Up

Giant stuffed bear leaves Coyote
Creek in the dump truck
and into the landfill. Photo by
Spiros Kolomvotos.

Our ninth cleanup occurred in honor of Earth Day at the Capitol Expressway area. We added to our already collected 29 tons of trash with another nearly 3 tons removed from Coyote Creek. Our nearly 80 volunteers who pulled out: 

• 2.9 tons of trash
• 9 shopping carts
• 4 tires
• a 6-foot stuffed bear
• loads of batteries
• 3 propane tanks. 

Thank you everyone!

A big shout out to Duncan and Wes (who came in from his vacation to work with us) for their diligence as Watershed Protection Rangers to keep our volunteers safe. Kudos to Ed and Spiros at the City of San Jose's Environmental Services Department for loading and taking the trash from our cleanup (despite the compactor being down), and from the city-wide Great American Litter Cleanup.

Dan shows off his efforts.
Photo by Richard McMurtry.

With everyone's help, Coyote Creek is getting cleaner by the month, but still has many issues, including homeless people who continue to trash the creek. Let's continue to work together help our creeks recover.

One of the teams with some of the 130 bags
of trash collected. Photo by Deb Kramer.