Artificial Beach

My name is Kevin Perez, and I'm currently a student at Cal State Los Angeles, my major is Mechanical Engeneering and I am enrolled in English 1005A. My  instructor Ximena Hernandez talk to us to be part of the heal of bay clean up located in Santa Monica. Although I had to work that day, I went to  the clean up to help out and collect the trash. Once there, I realize how the beaches were so contaminated with plastic. We were not taking care of our own environment, in which many spacies live. Besides just going there to pick up the trash, I was able to see how particles of plastic were all over the shore. There was a bunch of trash but specially cigarret buts and small pieces of plastic. People that were enjoying the day there at Santa Monica were asing questions like; why are u guys cleaning?. That's when I relized that people were there just for fun living their trush all over the place, and they don't even know that many animals are dying and consuming trush because of us. I feel proud that I had the opportunity  to part of the heal of bay clean up. I hope we are reducing pollution and taking care of nature which we all live in.

Trash and more trash

Hello y'all, I am Kai-Yu Chen but I prefer to be called Arthur. My major is


Computer Science and I am currently enrolled in English 2030 class.

On September 17 my class attended the Costal Cleanup at Santa

Monica beach. This Clean up will be my second time attending a

Costal Cleanup. This time at Santa Monica I picked up way more trash

than in Malibu and I was surprised by the fact that people still come to

a beach that's filled with trash. So I am glad that I attended this cleanup

and I didn't think that a beach can be this dirty. I changed my

perspective on how cleaning up the beach is the government's to it's

everyone's job. Keeping a clean healthy beach benefits all of us and

including nature, so we can simply contribute to the world by picking up trash at a beach.

Hello readers, my name is Hector Linares. I am currently a student at Cal State Los Angeles. In my English 1005A I heard from Prof. Hernandez that the class had an opportunity to be able to help out the Heal the Bay club. Prior to this event, in class we had the chance to become more aware of what is happening to our beaches. We learned about what is happening to wild life and natural life because of the filth that has accumulated through out the sea. The presentations motivated me to want take some time off of my regular schedule and see for myself the filth that is in our beaches and take action on the problem. Although the pieces of trash that are all over the beach may not harm us humans at the moment, it is harming wild life and natural life, which is fundamental for our lives in the bigger picture. The one thing that every piece of trash that I picked up had in common is that a certain point that piece of trash was in the hands of a human being. From now on I think twice before throwing a plastic bottle anywhere on the floor because eventually it ends up in our beaches. 

Not Just Sand.....Cigs and Bits

Hello , my name is Brenda Cuellar and I took part of Heal the Bay in Santa Monica with my English 1005A class taught by Ms. Hernandez at Cal State Los Angeles. Taking part of the community clean up reminds me what my high school club Youth Action fights for. Taking care of the environment and animals doesn’t just happens in one day. Heal the Bay is only the start of it. Seeing all the cigarette buds and plastic bits show how much we have abused our power with technology and earth in general. Even as we were cleaning, the people that we there enjoying the beach and pier were not picking up their trash. The city puts designated trash bins to prevent pollution from getting into the water and sand, but this does not stop people from just leaving it there or litter.The amount of trash found it the sand was mind boggling, but there is more underneath it. Volunteers just scratch the surface. Hopefully with more people involved, the more we can make an impact and change what we’ve done to nature.   

Hello. I'm Leonardo Gallegos I'm currently attending Cal State L.A. and I am in Professor Ximena Hernandez' English 2030 class. On Saturday September 17 my professor and classmates attended the Coastal Cleanup at Santa Monica beach. This was my first time attending this event and I am glad I offered my time to clean up the beach. I didn't expect to find a lot of trash at the beach but I was surprised to see how much trash just our group collected. I am glad to be a part of the event and I'm happy that so many people volunteered to clean up the beach. Once I started picking up trash with my group it changed my perspective on how this isn't just affecting one ecosystem but many worldwide. We all should change our habits to help keep the environment clean and reduce our carbon foot print.

 

My name is Diana Barcenas I attend California State University Of Los Angeles and I am currently in an English 1005A which helps me improve my writing skills and improve my reading. I have helped out before in my community with an Aquaponic Farm located near a high school called Katella High. I had to paint the logs that held up the soil and vegetables and fruits. Also I evened out the dirt where the boxes of soil were going to be placed. This time I went to Santa Monica pier to clean up the beach. It was such a great experience for me because it was my first time cleaning up a beach as well as visiting Santa Monica. It is such a beautiful place and I am glad I helped to keep it clean. It is something really important to do because it is our planet we need to help and keep it clean not make it dirty and impossible to live at. What I was shocked in finding were cigarette buds, I thought people are prohibited to smoke at the beach yet they still do it. In total I found one hundred and fifteen cigarette buds, which is really mindblowing, I was thinking about how many more there is at the beach, there must be millions of them. It is just important to remind people about keeping our community and world a clean and safe place at all times.

Heal The Bay

Greetings! The name is Tanya Kitchaiskulrit, and I am a freshman at Cal State L.A. I am taking English 1005A class in which Mrs. Ximena Hernandez is in charged. My class was asked to participate in Coastal Cleanup Day as a part of class activities. The event is happened every year on the third Saturday in September, although this is my first time that I have taken part in this activity. The event is about picking up trash around beaches in California.

I attended the event on Saturday, September 17th at Santa Monica beach. Since I got on the site before the start time, I took a walk around the beach to check the area. Overall, without much attention, I would say that the beach is surprisingly clean.

The beach is very clean if you don't pay close attention.

 When the event started, I paired up with my classmate and we received a glove for each person, a data card for recording stuff we picked up, and a bucket for collecting trash. We began to walk along the coast. At first, I thought that my group would not find much of trash as the beach is already clean, but when we closely examined the ground, we found out that a lot of trash are very hard to see since it was broken down into very small pieces and covered by sand in addition. Surprisingly enough, we ended up collecting garbage more than the amount we anticipated, and most of them are Cigarette butts, followed by pieces of plastic.

Just how many people smoke in each day on the beach to have this much?

 I believed that it must have more than what we have found out there as there are many participants in this event, and we were just away less than a mile from the start point. I am very frustrated by the fact that there are more people who are defiling nature than those who keep cleaning after them. Even though this event designed to dealing with this issue, and I am glad that lots people seem interested, I feel like it will never be enough to educate people of how important it is to clean after ourselves. I think that the reason why so many people neglected this problem because they believe that throw away such small amount of trash won't hurt anything. Apparently, the idea is widespread.

Smallest, but yet, deadliest to marine lives.