Venice Beach Needs Your Help Cleaning Up

VENICE, CA — Join a group of local community members Saturday to help keep Venice Beach clean.

The group is meeting up at 7 a.m. at Venice Fishing Pier, near Ocean Front Walk and Washington Boulevard, local business Venice Surf Shack told Patch.

September is Coastal Cleanup Month and the California Coastal Commission invites neighbors to join local cleaning events.

"Cleaning your neighborhoods, local parks, streets, and storm drains helps protect our coast," according to the agency. "Trash travels through storm drains, creeks, and rivers to become beach and ocean pollution. Help clean the beach by picking up litter in your community with your household."

Cleanups are happening across the coast every Saturday in September. People can also clean up on other days and times. The agency invites people to report cleanups by recording data on the CleanSwell app or completing this form.

Have you joined a recent beach cleanup this month? Let us know in the comments.

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