Dr. Plastic Picker

Public Health Sign On Letter Regarding Oil & Gas Drilling: Letter to CalGEM (California Geologic Energy Management Division)
2020-05-19 08:00 - 2020-06-30 17:00 UTC
Please see the letter to California Geologic Energy Management Division, and consider signing as an individual California Public Health Care Worker. “We the undersigned ask CalGEM to take preventive action to protect public health given the substantial and growing body of epidemiologic and toxicologic evidence about the negative health effects of oil and gas drilling.” The letter is addressed to CalGEM, the agency that oversees oil and gas, and outlines the health impacts of oil and gas drilling on fence line communities and also the health impacts of climate change, the downstream result of oil and gas extraction. Please feel free to click on the link to sign the letter

5 to 12-Year-olds: Dr. Plastic Picker is Calling for Your Trash Art!
2020-03-17 08:00 - 2020-05-31 17:00
Hello Junior Dr. Plastic Pickers! It is not safe right now to do litter picking outside, but at home you likely have a lot of “clean plastic trash.” Hopefully you have a glue gun! Under the supervision of an adult, Dr. Plastic Picker is interested in your Trash Art! Our blog is looking for submissions of 2-3 images of your Trash Art that you can make while being quarantined at home. Sent a picture and our blog will create a collage. When the quaratining is over, we can try to submit it as a group submission to the Del Mar Fair. Looking for at least 10 entries! Please submit via Instagram message or drplasticpicker@gmail.com.

Monarch and Pollinator Act of 2019: HELP SIGN NWF PETITION
2020-02-06 08:00 - 2020-03-31 17:00
Dr. Plastic Picker also started circulating a National Wildlife Foundation petition for the Monarch and Pollinator Highwat Act of 2019 that would require “the Secretary of Transportation to establish a program to provide grants to carry out activities to benefit pollinators on roadsides and highway rights-of-way, including the planting and seeding of native, locally-appropriate grasses and wildflowers, including milkweed, and for other purposes.” https://support.nwfactionfund.org/page/15908/donate/1?en_chan=fb&locale=en-US&ea.tracking.id=FBK_NWFAF&en_ref=31542314&fbclid=IwAR1439hxtZeN97rxY62IdIb5mtL1qPW3XwKSUdwtrs6SRC0VbnwqNANgDz8 This make a lot of sense, and that petition is at 9123/10000 signatures. Our goal is to help NWF get another 100 signatures. Let me know here as a comment if you signed, and are interested in our futher Monarch Butterfly Projects. We are going to try to collect milkweed seeds and distribute, and then have a group planting at a friend’s house.

Sunday, Feb 2: Imperial Beach Pier Cleaning with drplasticpicker and I Love A Clean San Diego
2020-02-02 07:30 - 09:00 | Imperial Beach Pier
Hello drplasticpicker friends and my office friends in real life! We are having our 2nd Office Beach Cleaning at Imperial Beach Pier. There will be simple but filling breakfast afterwards. Children welcome and I can sign off on community service hours as well. Let me know at the office or email me at drplasticpicker@gmail.com if you are planning on coming. We can accommodate last minute folks but I need a rough head count for food and also if we have more than 25, I Love A Clean San Diego will need to let the San Diego Police now. Just bring yourselves. I’ll have supplies from ILCSD and waiver forms on site. Sunscreen, hat and reusable water bottle please! Children must have an adult with them.

Donate Your Old Prescription Glasses and Sunglasses
2019-12-10 08:00 - 2019-12-21 17:00
Please drop off any old prescription glasses or sunglasses. Our blog is collecting them and will send them to Lions Club of California and Nevada to be donated.
