San Clemente Rotary Pledges to Earn Clean California Community Designation for a Cleaner City
San Clemente Rotary has a commitment to a cleaner and more beautiful San Clemente
by pledging to become a Clean California Community by February 2026. San Clemente
Rotary joins dozens of communities statewide who are participating in the Clean
California Community Designation Program—part of the Clean California initiative,
which is a multiyear program led by Caltrans to clean up, reclaim, transform, and
beautify public spaces statewide. The program was developed in partnership with
Caltrans, Keep America Beautiful and Keep California Beautiful.
By becoming part of the statewide program, San Clemente Rotary has committed to
implementing a variety of long-term, zero-litter policies to stay clean and beautiful, and
inspire a sense of pride among local residents.
San Clemente Rotary President Alan Adamo comments, “San Clemente Rotary has
supported community efforts for many years with monthly Beach Clean Ups, Arbor Day
Tree donations and plantings, and our commitment to youth education and community
service projects. Our motto of Service above Self is our commitment in all we do.”
Several groups have partnered with San Clemente Rotary in the effort to gain this
designation for the community, including: San Clemente Garden Club, San Clemente
High School Interact Club, the City of San Clemente, San Clemente High School, Noble
Path Foundation, the Boys & Girls Club, CR&R Incorporated, and the San Clemente Ocean Festival. Community members are also encouraged to attend events and show support by depositing trash in the receptables and keeping the beach, streets and sidewalks of the city clean and free from trash.
Over the next several months, engaged community members will conduct various
activities that support litter prevention, beautification, and environmental enhancement.
To earn the designation, the community must complete 10 of 15 criteria, including a
commitment to Clean Ups activities, Community Education, Youth Education, Greening
& Beautification, Collection Drives and Building partnerships.
Once the commitments have been met, designated Clean California Communities will
not only reap the benefits of a clean community, but also receive “Clean California
Community” signage, educational resources, free cleanup kits, automatic membership
with Keep California Beautiful and recognition in statewide releases and crosspromotional
Clean California materials.
San Clemente Rotary encourages other communities throughout California to join the
program and continue to clean up and transform California. For more information about
the program and to take the pledge, visit CleanCA.com/Designation.
The program’s goal is to fully designate 100 communities by June 2026. For more
information about the program, visit CleanCA.com/Designation.
To stay up to date on upcoming cleanup events and activities from San Clemente
Rotary, please visit our sites:
Website: https://sanclementerotary.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rotarysanclemente
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/san_clemente_clean_california
About San Clemente Rotary:
We are an organization made up of business, professional and civic leaders, as well as
local citizens, with a passion to perform community and international service while
enjoying fellowship and fun. Our meetings feature compelling speakers on topics of
interest to business and community leaders and citizens uniting for the common good.
We meet at the VIP Room of the San Clemente Outlets on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays
of the month. Meet-and-Greet starts at 5:00 pm followed by the Meeting from 5:30-6:30
pm.
About Clean California:
The Clean California initiative is a sweeping, $1.2 billion, multiyear cleanup effort led
by Caltrans to remove trash, create thousands of jobs, and join with communities
throughout the state to reclaim, transform and beautify public spaces.
Since launching Clean California in July 2021, Caltrans and its local partners have
picked up more than 2.7 million cubic yards of litter — enough to cover nine lanes of
Interstate 5 with an inch of trash from San Diego to the Canadian border. Caltrans has
hosted more than 500 free dump days in communities throughout the state — resulting
in the collection of more than 12,000-plus mattresses and 50,000 tires. The initiative has
drawn roughly 60,000 community clean-up volunteers and created more than 18,000
jobs, including positions for individuals who were formerly incarcerated, on probation, or
experiencing housing insecurity.
For more information, visit CleanCA.com.
About Keep America Beautiful:
Keep America Beautiful is the leading community improvement nonprofit organization in
the U.S. dedicated to inspiring and educating people to act every day to improve and
beautify their community environment. Established in 1953, it includes 700 Keep
America Beautiful affiliates and millions of volunteers who strive to end littering, improve
recycling, and beautify America’s communities. For more information, visit kab.org.
About Keep California Beautiful:
Keep California Beautiful is a statewide non-profit dedicated to litter prevention,
alternative waste management, beautification, community networking, and outreach.
Founded in 1990, its mission is to ignite individuals, state and local government,
community, and corporate responsibility, through strategic initiatives and volunteer
action, to preserve and protect California’s beautiful resources for generations to come.
