The Central Coast Sanctuary Alliance
Save Our Shores banded together 70 environmental organizations and businesses to create the newly formed Central Coast Sanctuary Alliance. The Alliance has one mission: to ban single-use plastic bags in each and every municipality and county surrounding the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
If you who would like to sign-on to the Alliance as a Supporting Business or a Supporting Member, please contact us today at lauren@saveourshores.org.
By passing bans on single-use plastic bags, the Central Coast Sanctuary Alliance will help protect hundreds of species of marine animals from suffocation or strangulation caused by plastic bag litter, provide a cleaner environment for residents & visitors to enjoy, help local businesses save money by discontinuing their use of plastic bags & lower cleanup costs incurred by local governments burdened by plastic bag litter.
Sign our petition in support of plastic bag bans all around the Sanctuary!
Representatives from the Central Coast Sanctuary Alliance will be meeting with city and county officials in all local jurisdictions surrounding the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary to present data on plastic pollution and encourage them to put forth a single-use bag ban modeled after the ban adopted by the County of Santa Cruz.
Here on the picturesque Monterey Bay, banning single-use plastic bags will become an economic support system for our flourishing coastal industries such as tourism and recreation, while providing protections for our fisheries, marine animals, and coastal environment from the ever growing problem of plastic pollution in our oceans.
The County of Santa Clara, the County of Marin, the City of Santa Monica, the City of San Jose, and the County of Los Angeles have all recently approved single-use bag bans.
The time is NOW for the jurisdictions and counties surrounding the pristine Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary to step it up and ban the bag! Find out more on the Plastic Bag Ban Report website...
Is your business or organization interested in signing on to support the Central Coast Sanctuary Alliance?
- Download, sign, and return the business sign-on letter: CCSA-Business-Sign-on-letter
- Download the public petition to gather signatures in support: Public-letter-of-support-bag-ban
- Read the press release announcing the Central Coast Sanctuary Alliance: PR_TheCentralCoastSanctuaryAlliance
- Look over the Plastic Bag Ban Fact Sheet: CCSA-Bag-Ban-FactSheet
Member Organizations of the Central Coast Sanctuary Alliance Include:
Save Our Shores
Surfrider Monterey
Oceana
Plastic Pollution Coalition
Ecology Action
Environment California
Defenders of Wildlife
Salinas Action Group
Sustainable Pacific Grove
Sustainable Carmel Valley
Sustainable Seaside
Sustainable Carmel
Surfrider Santa Cruz
Sealife Conservation
Surfer's Environmental Alliance
The Offset Project
Clean Beaches Coalition
Monterey Green Action
Coastal Watershed Council
Ocean Revolution
The Clean Oceans Project
Return of the Natives
Citizens For Sustainable Marina
Big Sur Advocates for a Green Environment
Sea Studios
Buckminster Fuller Institute
Monterey Coast Keeper
The Otter Project
Monterey Peninsula Plastic Pollution Initiative
Pacific Grove Middle School Ocean Guardians
Ventana Wildlife Society
Big Sur Land Trust
Ventana Wilderness Alliance
Environmental Cleanup Coalition
Everyone's Harvest
Environment California
Supporting Businesses:
EcoCarmel
Passionfish
New Leaf Community Markets
LUSH Cosmetics
Charlie Hong Kong
Maiden Publick House
Pacific Motor Service
Aromas Auto Repair
EMC Planning Group
Mustang Beginnings
Sprout Boutique
Cypress Inn
Forest Lounge
Lamplighter Inn
Vagabonds House
Terry’s Lounge
Carmel Belle
Basil Restaurant
Intercontinental, Clement Monterey Hotel
Girl Boy Girl
Paloosh
Acme Coffee
Happy Girl Kitchen
Alfresco
MacDonald Design, Inc.
Robin's Jewelry
Creme De Canna
Coffee House of Fishermen's Wharf
Passion Purveyors
Marine Life Studies
River Cafe
Cascade Bar and Grille
Greenspace
