This summer, if you are in the Los Angeles area, it is easy to work on your tan and help clean the environment at the same time. Just become a volunteer at Heal The Bay and enter their Adapt-a-Beach and/or Nothin’ But Sand programs.

What you will clean up won’t necessarily be pretty: Styrofoam food containers, cigarettes butts, and plastic bottle caps, to name but a few of the 31 different types of trash typically collected. But one to four hours of your time will help make a difference, and you will meet new people, too.

 

Just visit their website to see the various ways in which you can contribute. No experience is needed and training will be provided.