While professional cliff divers, Eleanor (Ellie) Smart and Owen Weymouth, were traveling around the world for their sport they kept noticing the same problem at every location: plastic pollution. The pair put their heads together and came up with The Clean Cliffs Project.…
The DRIFTERS PROJECT, begun by Pam Longobardi in 2006 after encountering the mountainous piles of plastic the ocean was regurgitating on remote Hawaiian beaches, has worked directly through local sponsorship, small grant support and personal expenditure by cleaning beaches, making art and…
Founded in 2017 by Katerina Topouzoglou, AllForBlue is an international, nonprofit organization which is dedicated to the protection of the oceans and its inhabitants, particularly sharks.With our Beach and Underwater Cleanups we aspire to restore the purity of the waters…
We are a growing family of beach lovers rolling up our sleeves to help rid the world’s beaches of marine litter and plastic pollution, two minutes at a time. We believe that every piece of litter removed from the beach…
Last week, Costa Rica once again made headlines because of its incredible people. We refer, specifically, to those who work every day to maintain their beaches, parks, and all the biodiversity that surrounds this country. In short, it was a…
You wouldn’t dispose of your plastic straw by throwing it into someone’s front yard, and yet volunteers have picked up more than 9 million straws and stirrers from beaches and waterways over the 30+ year history of the International Coastal Cleanup.…
Doing away with plastic waste Idyllic beach scenes are a thing of the past in many regions. Many coastlines now look more like waste dumps. Plastic is being discarded carelessly and gets washed to the coast by the surf. By…
Read on to find out why Suriname is also referred to as the ‘Earth’s Greenest Treasure’. I bet you guys probably know that we are having a year-long honeymoon and one of the highlights or our honeymoon, or maybe our entire travel…