BE THE SOLUTION.
BE THE SOLUTION.
Image taken in Seal Beach, California
Who We Are
The Pollution Solution:
We’re Pickin’ Up What You’re Puttin’ Down
Since 2023
In 2023, we got tired of it.
We got tired of seeing our beaches, harbors, and waterways full of waste. Southern California is home to some of the world's most beautiful and iconic coastal areas, and yet the Los Angeles-Long Beach region is also home to tens of thousands of pounds of illegally dumped waste a year.
The Pollution Solution (P.S.) is a 501c3 founded in 2023 as a way to put our dream of solving the ongoing waste crisis into action. Through volunteer waste collection, group waste collection events, fundraising, and a waste-self reporting website, we strive-- and work-- to decrease the amount of litter abundance in the City of Long Beach and eventually the whole of Los Angeles County, particularly around the water.
Waste facts
Americans make more than 200 million tons of garbage each year, enough to fill a football stadium from top to bottom twice a day
A glass container can go from a recycling bin to a store shelf in as few as 30 days
One ton of recycled cardboard saves 46 gallons of oil
Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the earth four times
The Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area was again the most ozone-polluted region in the nation — for its 24th year in a row (American Lung Association)
BECOME A VOLUNTEER
Volunteer with us and join the solution.