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Our Mission
Our Mission is to solve the trash problem at its roots: by changing the social norms, and fixing the structural problems that drive littering and dumping.
We start by cleaning up trashed areas, then we put in place solutions that reduce littering and dumping permanently. We have an experimental and data-driven approach, and trial many different interventions to reduce trashing.
Our goal is to eliminate trashing permanently.
Richmond
Richmond Streets
Richmond Streets by neighborhood. See map of Richmond Neighborhoods at: https://tinyurl.com/tecexzt3
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Berkeley, Oakland, East Bay Hills
Grizzly-Skyline-Redwood
This project focuses on the East Bay Ridge Roads: Grizzly Peak, Skyline, and Redwood. We have completed a first cleaning across 3.5 miles of Grizzly Peak from Centennial to Marlborough Terrace and we are working on extending our dataset along Skyline Blvd. and Redwood Road.
We removed over 450 bags of trash. This section needs additional roped work to get trash down steepish slopes.
To change a culture of trashing along Grizzly we organized 40 highly visible cleanups, and installed almost 100 signs. We are pleased to report that the amount of new trash along Grizzly has fallen dramatically.
We are looking for people with CLIMBING EXPERIENCE to help retrieve trash from easy Class-4 slopes.
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East Bay Hills
East Bay Backroads
The backroads around dense urban areas are the targets of a huge amount of dumping.
To date, we’ve primarily focused on Wildcat road, especially the stretch from Inspiration Point to San Pablo Dam Road.
We are looking for people with CLIMBING EXPERIENCE to help retrieve trash from easy Class-4 slopes.
The Wildcat section is led by Jill McIntire. We are grateful for support from EBMUD Watershed and Recreation Dept for bags, and the Contra Costa County Public Works Department for trash pickup.
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Oakland
Oakland Streets
This project focuses on untrashing Oakland City Streets, see the East Bay Highways project for significant overlap.
We’ve divided the city up into Oakland Neighborhood Districts, see list of neighborhoods by district, here: https://tinyurl.com/cjkjthzk
And a map of Oakland districts, here:
https://tinyurl.com/mn5ja6c
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Berkeley, Oakland
East Bay Highways
This project focuses on cleaning up around the major highways crossing the East Bay, a great deal of this work is focused on cleaning around homeless encampments.
For encampments on city streets or in parks, see city Streets and Parks projects.
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East Bay Hills
East Bay Canyons
This project includes the East Bay Canyons. This project overlaps with East Bay Creeks, but is focused on the cleaning the land. The canyons above Berkeley, include:
Strawberry Canyon
Dwight/Derby Canyon
Claremont Canyon
Above Oakland, this includes
Upper Broadway, Merriewood and Temescal Lake
Thornhill Dr / Montclair / Upper Temescal Creek
Shepherd Canyon
Joaquin Miller
Leona Heights
The Strawberry Canyon and Derby work is led by John Stenzel. We are grateful for support from UC Berkeley Facility Services for trash pickup.
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Richmond, Berkeley, Oakland, East Bay Coastal