Berkeley (cigarette) butt pick event 1/29!

Hello fellow trash pickers and clean street lovers! Join us tomorrow for a trash pick event starting off at the corner of Telegraph and Bancroft Avenues right at the entrance to UC Berkeley. We'll try to take care of the damage from some of last night's parties and shake a few hands, exchange a few smiles along the way. Check out this cool flyer from Yamato, and cast your vote below for what you think will be the most common item found on the pick!



What will be the most common item found on the Jan. 29 Berkeley trash pick-up?

1. pink and green plastic spoons from yogurt shops
2. Starbucks cup lids
3. dirty diapers
4. yesterday's Daily Cal newspaper
5. red plastic cups
6. wet kleenex & other assorted tissue-like substances
7. mostly empty plastic take-out food containers
8. talkin' trash with ray & dave 1/29 butt pick event flyers strewn all over the place
9. cigarette butts--duh
10. [YOUR WRITE-IN CANDIDATE] _______________________

China Basin trash pick-up Jan. 7

 Here at talkin' trash headquarters, we hope everyone's had a super start to the new year. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts last year, there has been a fair amount of trash on the streets in the first 4 days of 2012. And the steam-cleaning Department of Public Works in San Francisco is probably not going to get it all cleaned up in preparation for this year's Chinese New Year parade. So it looks like we have work to do again this year.

This Saturday, January 7, from 10-12, we were planning to join the Sea Scavenger Conservancy for their once-a-month industrial shoreline cleanup, where they get a bunch of volunteers together just south of AT&T park in San Francisco to "help stop shoreline plastic from becoming ocean plastic".

But, guess what? Found out that's happening January 14th--and all of their pick-ups will be on the SECOND Saturday of each month. We'll try again next week.

SO, in the meantime, we'll plan to work the streets around the Caltrain station, AT&T park, and China Basin, and hopefully pick up some of the plastic that might make its way into the bay anyway. Come join us everyone!

What: Walkin' talkin' neighborhood trash pick-up & podcast

Who: Anyone & everyone

When: 10 am - 12 noon, Saturday Dec. 7

Where: In front of the Caltrain Station, 4th St. btwn King & Townsend

Bring: A friend. Walkin' shoes. Gloves. A trash picker if you've got one

Want more info? Email Ray & Dave at pickitupsf AT gmail dot com

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