499 people volunteered along the shoreline of Lake Tahoe to protect the national treasure. As part of a lakewide cleanup organized by the League to Save Lake Tahoe, “Keep Tahoe Blue” participants removed 1,458 pounds of litter that would have harmed the Lake’s ecology.
Cleanup participants gathered at five locations around Lake Tahoe, and together removed litter from six miles of shoreline, including Commons Beach in Tahoe City, Kings Beach, Kiva Beach, Nevada Beach and Regan Beach in South Lake Tahoe. Volunteers sorted and counted the items collected. Single-use plastics were the most commonly-found trash item, including cigarette butts, cups, lids, bottle caps and food wrappers.