County |
Volunteers |
Trash |
Recyclables |
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Statewide
Adopt-A-Highway |
2,947 |
49,347 |
1,392 |
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Alameda |
2,803 |
44,978 |
4,745 |
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Alpine |
13 |
444 |
0* |
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Butte |
160 |
16,220 |
7,083 |
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Contra Costa |
954 |
65,863 |
400 |
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Del Norte |
260 |
350 |
51 |
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Sacramento Delta |
400 |
50,000 |
0* |
|
El Dorado |
415 |
4,683 |
595 |
|
Fresno |
158 |
8,788 |
4,080 |
|
Humboldt |
1,176 |
6,197 |
0* |
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Lake |
190 |
2,110 |
510 |
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Los Angeles |
8,800 |
104,343 |
13,822 |
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Marin |
1,120 |
6,996 |
1,961 |
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Mendocino |
265 |
1,768 |
655 |
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Modoc |
17 |
210 |
5 |
|
Mono |
108 |
75 |
15 |
|
Monterey |
1,637 |
5,543 |
2,688 |
|
Napa |
242 |
4,845 |
1,380 |
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Nevada |
500 |
5,820 |
2,218 |
|
Orange |
5,101 |
55,920 |
10,937 |
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Placer |
Totals included under El Dorado County |
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Riverside |
Totals included under San Diego County |
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Sacramento |
600 |
6,000 |
4,800 |
|
San Bernardino |
88 |
1,497 |
229 |
|
San Diego |
4,724 |
97,171 |
3,770 |
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San Francisco |
2,335 |
7,980 |
6,340 |
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San Luis Obispo |
1,511 |
11,098 |
2,339 |
|
San Mateo |
1,449 |
26,636 |
17,169 |
|
Santa Barbara |
504 |
2,261 |
1,143 |
|
Santa Clara |
1,427 |
41,305 |
6,413 |
|
Santa Cruz |
1,500 |
5,900 |
1,880 |
|
Siskiyou |
20 |
710 |
70 |
|
Solano |
1,267 |
32,216 |
15,135 |
|
Sonoma |
1,079 |
11,257 |
6,101 |
|
Ventura |
1,938 |
18,122 |
4,510 |
|
Yuba |
250 |
15,680 |
26,320 |
Total
|
45,958
|
712,333
|
148,756
|
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All weights listed in pounds.
*Weight of recyclable material included in "Trash" totals. |
Unusual Finds from Coastal Cleanup Day 2002
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Alameda
Playschool Playhouse; Cat's headstone stating: "Your soul is safe now! The spirit is home. Rest in God's Peace;" 4 ft. long stuffed toy salmon; 1 ft statuette; bocce balls; maple syrup; urinal drain; IV bag; funeral wreath; yellow jacket trap; doll; a safe; music box; fishing license; a railroad spike; baby hatchling bird in a jar; brand new pair of men's steele toe boots; 1 dead stingray.
Alpine
Broken up buoys.
Butte
Computer monitors; bike frames.
Contra Costa
Lots of styrofoam (boats); old pilings; lot of plastic rings; 2 Phone Booths; 1 Bench Press set; life jacket; 4 boats.
El Dorado
Christmas wrapping paper and ornaments; Barbie doll with a nail through its hand; homeless camp with mattress; stuffed chair; computer monitor and brass lamp; a pit bull dog chained to a tree; 80 empty CD cases; pack of dental floss next to a "used" corn on the cob.
Lake
Purse filled with drugs & drug paraphenalia; hibachi; newpaper stand; money.
Los Angeles
Pair of Scooby Doo underwear; working wallet from 1995 containing MTA card, calender & food stamps from 1995; hypodermic; eyeglasses.
Marin
Hobnail shoe sole perhaps from Civil War; 1,000 lbs of wood; toaster; bathtub; 10 dead leopard sharks.
Mendocino
Companion sets of mail & female underwear, sterling silver steak knife
Monterey
200lbs lumber; 6 tires; 4 mattresses; 4 box springs; 112 pound Tire; dead sea lion with fishing line around fin; lots of foam and plywood from recent boat wreck; hibachi BBQ; part of an engine; unopened bottle of beer; home prenency test; car battery; big ball of fishing line and hooks; plastic eyball; shopping cart; 4' drill bit; menues; baby shoes; plyers; slingshot; old anchovy tin lid; tent w/2 live rats inside.
Modoc
Two trash cans; a doll; a mixing bowl.
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Nevada
Cache of Playboy magazines; 3 different toilets; a crack pipe; an old miner's lunchbox; an old Waylon Jennings Album.
Orange
Men's large underwear; a cremation wreath; push broom & oar; gas tank; garbage can; condom; purple plastic toilet seat; blowup doll; Pooh Bear; Dracula Teeth; wooden duck; strooler & boogie board; porn magazine; phone booth; stuffed Garfield; portable stereo; 2 homeless encampments; fire extinguisher; crutch; baby walker; scooter.
Sacramento
Foam foot 3" long, used for advertising a foot fungus cream; fireplace grate.
San Bernardino
Half an Easter egg; half a turtle shell (w/partial leg still attached).
San Diego
Carborator; 1/2 of a Led Zepplin Album; 1/2 bowling ball; 1/2 of a surfboard; belt buckle; picture of Elvis.
San Luis Obispo
Weather tracking device; "Just Married" sign; live Common Murre.
Santa Barbara
Bird burial box that said "My beloved Chico is dead in this box. He died of old age. He was a Good Spirit."
Santa Clara
New jar of preserved jalapenos; Ford engine; car seat; managuin; piece of paper w/ newborn baby foot prints; actual Pig hide; box of party fliers; antique 55gal drum carrier; a vehicle steering suspension piece.
Santa Cruz
Astro Glide lubricant (4 unopened tubes); bra; parol registration receipt; refrigerator; whole box of original books; axe head; toilet seat; unopened can of kidney beans; pager; dust pan.
Solano/Yolo
Sample strainer; porcupine bones; full set of CD's; animal carcass on a drain; dead goats in a bag; backpack; human leg bone (police were called); K-mart shopping cart; complete tea set.
Solano/Yolo
Check written to Taco Bell for $8.78 from a person in Twin Falls, Idaho; fridge magnet in the shape of a tooth from orthodontist in Arizona; fuzzy dice; whitewall rim tire; cowboy boots.
Yuba
Plymouth F50 Truck w/full of gas (caught someone in the act of illegal dumping); campaign sign.
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