Of the nearly 32.5 million pieces of trash collected by Ocean Conservancy cleanups, there were 4.7 million food wrappers.

Food packaging remains the second most common trash item collected during the group’s annual beach cleanup in 2018. And now for the first time, plastic forks, knives, and spoons have made the ...

Other common items found on the California coast included straws and stirrers (13,291), plastic grocery bags (14,000), glass beverage bottles (10,559) and beverage cans (12,770). All are items ...

In just three hours on July 5, volunteers with the League to Save Lake Tahoe collected 8,559 pounds of litter left behind by Fourth of July celebrants on Tahoe beaches and beach parking lots. It ...

The trash was pushed onto Montesinos Beach by a recent storm, but environmentalists say the scene is becoming all the more common Brigit Katz - Correspondent July 24, 2018 ...

Lake Tahoe was packed over the Fourth of July holiday, and the revelers left behind a big mess, littering beaches with plastic water bottles, beer cans, watermelon rinds, lone flip-flops, wine ...

Beachgoers enjoy Victoria Beach in Laguna Beach in June. Residents are becoming increasingly frustrated with the amount of tourists who come to town, bringing traffic and trash problems.