Four thousand students in Los Angeles assembled on May 23, 2019 to celebrate the 26th Annual KIDS OCEAN DAY at Dockweiler State Beach. The event was one of the largest beach cleanups in the state. This year's theme, CARE FOR WHAT YOU LOVE, was visually illustrated via a student-led aerial art formation in the shape of sea animals and a heart.
Prior to KIDS OCEAN DAY, the Malibu Foundation for Environmental Education hosted months of school assemblies about the adverse impacts of trash and litter pollution on the streets and how the rains carry the plastic debris down the storm drain and onto the beach and into the ocean, entangling the animals and polluting our food resources. Their purpose was to empower kids and their families to take action for a healthy environment.
KIDS OCEAN DAY is sponsored by the Malibu Foundation for Environmental Education; Los Angeles Sanitation & Environment; the City of Los Angeles Board of Public Works; the California Coastal Commission; and Keep LA Beautiful. For more information, please visitwww.kidsoceanday.org.