Removing a Ton of Trash… Literally
Try to imagine a ton of trash. Now imagine that trash strewn across just a half-mile section of a creek that flows to San Francisco Bay. Not a pretty sight, but that’s what 66 volunteers encountered on...
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Kicking Butts in El Cerrito
3 billion cigarette butts are littered in the Bay Area each year. Update 10/8/14: We’re excited to announce that the El Cerrito City Council unanimously approved the Smoking Pollution Protection...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Governor Brown
Save The Bay has been working for years to rid San Francisco Bay of plastic bag pollution. This month, we are closer than ever to achieving a statewide bag ban in California. SB 270 has passed the...
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Working Toward a Butt Free Bay This Coastal Cleanup Day
You decide: Which city will we make #ButtFree next? Imagine an event where on a single day each year, people around the world spend 4 hours picking up trash along their local creek or beach, helping to...
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Celebrate Your Local Estuary
Did you know that San Francisco Bay is an estuary of international importance due to the rich ecosystem it supports and its central role in the economy and quality of life of the Bay Area? September...
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How We Did it: Banning Plastic Bags in the Bay Area and Beyond
To learn more about California’s journey to a statewide bag ban, check out our interactive timeline. For the last 6 years, Save The Bay has worked publicly and behind the scenes to build the progress...
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Reality Check for Big Plastic: 60% of California Supports the Bag Ban
Plastic bags are a blight on the environment, no matter how the plastics industry spins it. Photo via Anthony Fine on Flickr. Hot button issues like the passing of recent statewide bag ban – the first...
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2,635 Pieces of Tiny Toxic Trash in San Mateo
An empty pack of cigarettes and cigarette butts found near a creek in San Mateo Growing up in the Bay Area, I never gave a second thought to cigarette butts. I definitely saw them on the ground, at...
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Bay Pollution and the World’s Oceans
Plastic trash washed up on a beach in Malaysia. Trash flowing out of San Francisco Bay and into the Pacific Ocean can make its way to distant shores. Photo by: epSos.de Spanish explorers once called...
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Good riddance to microbeads
Artwork by first grader Johanna N. courtesy of the NOAA Marine Debris Program It’s hard to muster a lot of sympathy for the plastics industry. Especially if you know anything at all about the vast...
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Protect California’s Bag Ban
Bill the Pelican taking a photo with his Save The Bay bag for the #MyBag Campaign In August of 2014, California became the first state in the country to approve a plastic bag ban and on September 30,...
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Plastic Pollution Roundup
Photo by: epSos.de Preventing trash from flowing into San Francisco Bay has been an ongoing battle with a repeat offender: plastics. Save The Bay has worked with local communities to ban plastic bags,...
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Our Chance to Uphold California’s Bag Ban
In 2014 something incredible happened: Californian legislators, environmentalists, community groups, labor unions, and business groups all came together to pass a piece of environmental legislation to...
View ArticleWe need your help: Take our plastic bag ban survey
We’re gearing up for a big new fight against polluters. We know we’ll be outspent, but we think we can win if we play it smart. Can you help by sharing a few quick thoughts? We’ve put together a brief...
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Bigger than the Bag: the true promise of a state bag ban
The devastating effects of plastic bag pollution are very real. A YES Vote on Prop 67 is an investment in the Bay that will produce great benefits for our society, economy, and environment. Over the...
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Don’t be Fooled by Prop 65
Photo credit: Dave Bleasdale Prop 65 is a classic “look here, not over there” distraction tactic by none other than the plastics industry, and they’re banking on their ability to confuse California...
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Humans of the Bay for Prop 67
Bodie, my 8-month-old golden retriever, is pictured here during our walk at Ocean Beach. My YES vote on Prop 67 will be for both Bodie and I. Bodie is my 8-month-old golden retriever who, as you can...
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Sunnyvale residents advocating for a plastic-free California
In Sunnyvale, using reusable bags has turned into a lifestyle rather than just a policy. Photo: Vivian Reed Present-day Sunnyvale, California is known as “The Heart of Silicon Valley,” but if you walk...
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A #GivingTuesday message from Jaime Redford
As a documentary filmmaker, conservationist, and proud Bay Area resident, experience has taught me that when we focus on hope and solutions, our society is capable of great things. You and the Save...
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The State of Trash in the Bay: Our 2016 Report
The size of the dots above correspond to the relative population of each city. Cities highlighted in green have already achieved the 70% trash reduction required by July 2017, while the cities...
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