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Facility Tours Offered During Creek Week!

By Sep 12, 2022

Coastal Cleanup Day

Sat/ Sep 17th     9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Various Beach Locations Countywide

Help clean your favorite beach! Learn more and sign up to participate at ExploreEcology.org/CCD.

If you are unable to make it Saturday, clean up your neighborhood, favorite park, trail, or beach anytime this month.

Don't forget to collect and submit cleanup data on the Clean Swell app!

ReSource Center and Tajiguas Landfill Tour

Wed/ Sep 21st   12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Santa Barbara County ReSource Center, 14470 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117, USA

Learn about your waste!

Come visit upstairs in the Materials Recovery Facility where our brand new Education Center is located! Here you can experience first-hand, the behind-the-scenes of the trash and recyclables sorting operations.

The center offers a unique, physical educational experience about waste reduction. With the Education Center located on the second floor, you are able to look down and around the inside of the Materials Recovery Facility through the tall windows that frame the bright green machinery and hardworking crew.

For more information or to RSVP, please contact Sam Dickinson at SDickinson@CountyOfSB.org.

Directions to the ReSource Center are available at https://lessismore.org/.../directions-to-the-resource-center.

Household Hazardous Waste Recycling Center Tour at UCSB

Fri / Sep 23rd   12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Building 565 Mesa Road on the UCSB campus.

Join in a tour of the Community Hazardous Waste Collection Center. Age 12 and up. RSVP Required to VKampmann@CountyOfSB.org. 

Falcon Demonstration

Sat / Sep 24th   10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
4430 Calle Real, Santa Barbara

Learn how working falcons keep the Transfer Station free of seagulls, helping protect water quality.

Meet in the parking lot before entrance, South Coast Recycling and Transfer Station, 4430 Calle Real.

For details contact Cathleen at CGarnan@CountyOfSB.org.