The LA and San Gabriel Rivers push an estimated 380–570 tonnes of plastic into the Pacific every year. People are racing to get trash interceptors in the water before LA28. That work matters. So does the work upstream of it — at the drainage creek behind the parking lot, at the storm drain outfall nobody's watching, at the stretch of bank that never makes the news. The machines catch what gets past the volunteers. The volunteers catch what gets past everyone else. If you're in the LA or San Gabriel watershed and you're doing this work, tell us what the bank looks like right now. #urbancleanup #losangeles #sangabrielriver #lariver #rivercleanup