Save Our Shores thanks the City of Capitola, City of Scotts Valley, and Green Waste for Sponsoring our custom-made Bring Your Own Bag Day canvas bags in 2011 to help reduce pollution in our ocean and communities.

The City of Santa Cruz, County of Santa Cruz, and City of Watsonville are also helping with the county-wide effort by supplying reusable bags and funding for Bring Your Own Bag Day efforts on December 15th!

In 2011, we held the very first Bring Your Own Bag Day in Santa Cruz.We are amazed at the number of businesses, large and small, who quickly signed on to participate. They are each making a positive impact on our environment by reducing the overall amount of plastic pollution that litters our communities, watersheds, and ocean.

“The detrimental impacts of single-use plastic bags are indisputable. From the oil needed to manufacture and transport bags around the planet to the massive amount of plastic trash destroying our oceans, threatening marine life, and contaminating our food web, this relic of the past is a wasteful contributor to pollution.”
Says Mark Stone, Santa Cruz County Supervisor and author of Santa Cruz County’s ordinance to ban plastic bags.