Heal the Bay

Hello my name is Mariella Orellana and this is my second quarter at CSULA. I am currently enrolled in English 101 and on January 24th my class went to dockweiler beach to pick up trash and participate with heal the bay. It being my first time at this beach, I noticed it was empty, not to mention it was a Sunday at 9 am. Also, there was less trash than I imagined there to be. Although we didn't get to fill up our bag completely, we did find a lot of pieces of plastic buried in the sand and tied up in the seaweed. We found over 235 pieces of plastic and over 100 bottle caps and straws. It was sad to realize that even after everyone doing their part and picking up trash there was still a lot more trash that these poor animals will be confusing for food. Overall this activity was really fun and very eye opening. I am glad to have been a part of this because I now know the importance of helping our environment and cleaning up after ourselves and the harm that we can cause if we don't.

Clean Beach

      My name is Jose Martinez and I am a freshmen in CSULA. On January 24, my English 101 class and I participated in the Heal the Bay activity.  The main goal of this activity was to clean the beach. The past few weeks we have been reading and learning about the environment in Los Angeles. The environment is a bit bad here from all the pollution, so we decided to take action of this. Going to the beach to a clean up made me feel a bit like No Impact Man because I was doing something positive for the environment. Unfortunately, I was not able to make it on time to join my classmates on this activity but I was still able to do my part and do some cleaning. Cleaning was fun, the first thing I picked up was a pair of blue sandals. I had an epiphany ,while I was cleaning, about Earth being my only home and that I should really treat it with care because it is everything that I have in my years of living. I'm glad that I was able to clean the beach and take time to enjoy the beach. Hopefully everyone starts to do their part to keep the environment clean.


This is the pair of blue sandals that I found.

Healthy Beach, Happy Me

                                                Healthy Beach, Happy Me

Hi, my name is Miguel Barrios and I'm currently a Freshman attending CSULA. For my English 101 class we had a field trip on January 24 to Dockweiler beach, and our goal was to clean the beach an list the things we picked up. It was a great experience spending a couple of hours of my time reconstructing the environment. We all know that all of the effort my classmates and I brought in to this field trip didn't help to clean the whole beach, but we all know that we all made a difference. Every little help counts to improve a piece of our environment. At first before I arrive to the beach I never thought it was going to be that dirty as I imagine, but once I arrive their I then saw how mistreated the beach was. The beach had a lot of Styrofoam pieces and plastic objects allover the sand and hills. It was a great sensation that I earned from cleaning the beach because I saw some issues that happens everyday at the beach and many animals are in risk in consuming them and getting affected. It was awesome cleaning the beach and protecting some animals and their habitat.

                                     

 

Hello, my name is Gaston Gutierrrez and I am a freshman currently enrolled at Cal State Los Angeles. On January 24, 2016, our class participated in a event called Heal the Bay. The event is a day where people came to volunteer to clean Dockweiler Beach. In our class we have been learning about how our environment is being polluted and the effects it has on our world so this event was a way to help make a change and help the environment. At the beach we were split into groups and worked together to pick up the trash that is washed up on the beach or that is left over from people who left their trash. Surprisingly, their was a lot of trash that was in the sand. People really need to start throwing way their trash, it made me mad how lazy people can be. It also made me think how important it is throwing away your trash can be and helping our environment. The most trash that was found was cigaret buds and plastic straws. The weirdest thing was found by our class was a big rusty pipe and know one knew where it came from. From this event I've learned how much trash is in our ocean and that people need to take care of our environment. It was cool getting together with my classmates and making a difference.

Heal the Bay

Hello, my name is Jesus Lopez I am currently a freshmen attending California State University, Los Angeles.  For my English 101 class my classmates  and I gathered up at Dockweiler Beach to join an activity known as Heal the Bay. We all tried to collect as much trash possible. This was a fascinating activity as it related to the previous readings we were been doing in class. The first thing I noticed when  I got there was all the trash that was by the shore and all the trash that was hidden under the sand. While we were trash hunting the weirdest thing I saw was a shopping cart stuck by the shoreline.  As we continued with our activity I collected so many cigarette butts, so many foam cups, candy wrappers, and even napkins.  This activity made a good impact into my life as it made me realize how important it is to toss all our trash into the trash cans and not be lazy and throw anywhere. It also felt good  in the long run not only because we helped cleaned the beach but because we made a great impact in the environment. 

Hello, my name is Rosa Sanchez. I am a freshman at CSULA and currently enrolled in English 101. On Sunday, January 24 my class and I participated for the Heal The Bay event. We were in groups and we all had to pick up the trash and count how much of each item we found. Within our groups we had to walk around the beach and picked up trash. The amount of trash we found was a lot and much of it was very surprising. My group found a lot of cigarette butts and lighters. What we kept finding over and over again were a lot of straws and bottle caps. This relates to our class because we have been learning about what happens to all the water that is in the L.A river. It all drains into the oceans and this weekend we saw the effects on that by seeing all the trash that was near the beach. I learned that by us cleaning the beach we can make a difference because fish eat plastic thinking it's something else and that kills them. Seeing all the trash In the beach was very concerning, but we can all make a difference by not littering so that less trash won't end up in the ocean. 

Healing the Bay; What a Productive Day !

DOCKWEILER BEACH CLEAN UP

January 24th, 2016

My name is Alexa Zubia and I currently attend the California State University of Los Angeles. I am enrolled in an English 101 class that centers our curriculum around the environment; it's past, present, and overall welfare. Our class took the opportunity this past Sunday to align ourselves with other classes like ourselves and the Heal the Bay organization to go and help clean up the Dockweiler beach. The Dockweiler State Beach is a beach in Los Angeles, California, with a 3.75 mile long shoreline with a hang gliding training center and, oh yeah, a waste treatment center located right next to it that directly dumps all of our processed wastes into the ocean. Needless to say, the damage to the environment here isn't much of a secret compared to other beaches along the coast. While we were here, it was also a part of our job to document the types of trash we picked up, and let me tell you; the results were shocking. With a group of 7 people scouring the sand and attempting to keep an eye on the large, crashing waves threatening to take us prisoner in its chilly, early morning current, we had found over 275 pieces of plastic of varying sizes, about 99 different straws, and hundreds of other surprising, disgusting, and shocking waste. After filling our large trash bag with the evidence of the lack of care our beaches receive, we discovered that all the other groups data was similar and came to the same conclusion; the beaches, and our communities, deserve better. This experience was truly eye-opening to the ways we've been treating our Earth, and it was the first domino in a predicted long set up of continuous support and volunteer work for our environment.