Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf picks up litter near Lake Merritt as part of the "Battle for the Bay" competition last Saturday in which three Bay Area cities - Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose - competed to see which one could recruit the most volunteers to pick up trash on California Coastal Cleanup Day. (Photo by Janis Mara/BCN)

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf expertly grabbed a wad of paper in the jaws of a trash-picker, then deposited the trash in a garbage bag she was carrying near Lake Merritt in Oakland.

Schaaf was one of thousands of Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose residents participating in the “Battle for the Bay,” a friendly competition between the cities over which one could recruit the most volunteers to clean up trash last Saturday, Sept. 21.

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