I plan to participate in the "Save the Waves" Beach Clean-Up which is ortganized by the city of Huntington and Santiago High School student Lexie Moomaw as part of her duty as a Girl Scout because of the importance of keeping our planet clean, spreading earth awareness, and getting the public involved.

327 Pacific Coast Highway Huntington Beach, CA 92648 While traveling on Pacific Coast Highway parked accross the street near the beach parking lot at 6th Street, right after main street, and met with the group of volunteers on the North side of the Huntington Beach Municipal pier.

This activity took placer on Saturday, April 21, 2012 from 9:00am to 12:00pm.

Part of the many responsibilities that I must take on include providing awareness of the importance of keeping our earth clean and getting involved toward making a difference at the organized clean-up day.

Ken Pitts (Santiago High School AP Environmental Science instructor) will be signing off my volunteer hours.

I participated 3 hours in volunteering for this activity.

I hope to attain a cleaner beach and making others (public) aware that we only need to do little to make a significant impact in our environment.

The organization I volunteered for was the City of Huntington to help clean the beach and for Lexie Moomaw who is striving to achieve an award for her service in her Girl Scout troop.

Lexie Moomaw: (951)-847-0698

2012-04-21

2012-04-21

3 hours

As I arrived, we were asked to sign in and then we were given a plastic bag and a pair of gloves. The group of volunteers split into different clean-up crews/teams and walked along the Huntington Beach sea shore and picked up any trash that was found in the sand. After we gathered the trash collected we headed back to the tent and put our bags of trash into the back of a truck. After all of the volunteer's hard work, we discussed to one another about the trash that we collected as we drank several bottles of water.

A major accomplishment achieved after this activity was the trash that was removed from the beach that can be proven harmful to the environment and the marine life that mistake the trash for food. Some of the many trash items we collected included tar, cigarettes butts, plastic, chip bags, lids and straws, and much more!

One important thing that I learned was that humans consume much more than we need and clearly do not dispose their trash properly. The trash we dispose is all around us! Disposing of trash inappropriately can cause significant harm to the environment. I also noticed that there were pieces of tar spread all around the sand along the beach from oil rigs spilling crude oil in the ocean. The tar harms the local marine life and is not a pleasant thing to touch or smell. Cleaning up the beach is a simple thing that everyone can be a part of and at the same time make a large impact in making our environmet a better place to live in.

Huntington Beach, California