Annual Coastal Cleanup in San Diego Saturday

By Ed Joyce / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published September 13, 2007 at 12:43 PM PDT

This story was published more than 16 years ago.

The largest volunteer coastal cleanup in California kicks off Saturday morning. More than 6,000 volunteers will scour San Diego County waterways and trails to collect trash. KPBS reporter Ed Joyce has

The largest volunteer coastal cleanup in California kicks off Saturday morning. More than 6,000 volunteers will scour San Diego County waterways and trails to collect trash. KPBS reporter Ed Joyce has more.

Last year volunteers in the county collected nearly 200,000 pounds of debris from waterways, beaches and inland areas. There are more than 60 different coastal and inland cleanup sites this year.

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Danielle Miller is with San Diego Coastkeeper , one of the groups coordinating the cleanup. She says plastic products continue to threaten marine life and the world's waterways.

Miller : Thinking about your purchases, what you buy and the effect it's going to have on the environment. Try to reuse before you buy something and not buying as much plastic as possible.

She says for the first time an underwater team will clean up part of San Diego Bay. Volunteers can register at Coastkeeper's web site. The cleanup is part of a worldwide event with simultaneous efforts in all states and more than 70 countries.

Ed Joyce, KPBS News.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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