Rather than spending a day lounging at the beach, this Saturday, Sept. 17, more than 30 Sonoma State students will be spending several hours picking up, sorting, and collecting data on hundreds of pounds of trash along the Sonoma Coast.
This year marks the eighth year in a row that the JUMP (Join Us Making Progress) program at Sonoma State University has provided volunteers for the annual California Coastal Clean-Up.
At this statewide event, 50,000 volunteers come out to over 700 cleanup sites all over California to conduct what has been hailed by the Guinness Book of World Records as "the largest garbage collection" (1993).
Since the program started in 1985, over 650,000 Californians have removed more than 10 million pounds of debris from the state's shorelines and coast.
For further information, contact the JUMP office at (707) 664-4277.
