Saving Nature, One Plastic Bag at a Time
Armed With Heavy Gloves and Trash Pickers, Salton Sea Residents Are Cleaning up Their Own Backyard
At clean-ups I help organize in communities around the Salton Sea, volunteers are a mix of residents and visitors, of every age and background. Some people drive more than 90 minutes to participate. Teachers like Lorraine Salas and Susan Millan have their students—from El Centro at the southern end and Thermal at the northern end—join in. Elementary school kids come together armed with picker-uppers, gloves, and a positive attitude, run around the desert brush and along the shoreline, try to outdo each other. Cleaning up around the sea teaches you …
