Every year on the 3rd Saturday of September, the California Coastal Commission coordinates the California Coastal Cleanup Day in a statewide effort to help clean our coastal beaches.  This statewide event is combined with the Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup which makes it one of the largest volunteer events of the year.

The California Coastal Commission initiated the first Cleanup Day in 1985, and ever since then thousands of volunteers have shown up at over 400 sites in California to pick up several hundred thousand pounds of trash

Alpha Gamma Sigma became involved in its first Coastal Cleanup event on September 21, 2002.  Six members tackled on of the lesser known, but equally important, beaches at Crab Park in Loleta.  Statewide 45,000 volunteers showed up and picked up almost 850,000 pounds of trash, which was the biggest trash haul to date.