Celebrate Clean Coasts 20th birthday with a clean-up on World Ocean Day 

Register online and get a free clean-up kit 

 

In June this year, Clean Coasts celebrates its 20th birthday! We can’t think of a better way to mark this special occasion than by doing something to protect our coast and celebrating our amazing groups and volunteers around Ireland for the work they do and efforts they put in making a difference.   

For this reason, we are asking people around Ireland to request a clean-up kit and committing to doing a clean-up in honour of World Ocean Day to celebrate this milestone with us!  

 

About Clean Coasts and World Ocean Day

World Ocean Day is celebrated annually on June 8th to highlight the important role the ocean has for our life and the planet. For 2023, the focus of World Ocean Day will be on the 30×30 campaign meaning that for us to create a healthy ocean with abundant wildlife and to stabilize our climate, it’s crucial that 30% of our planet’s lands, waters, and ocean are protected by the year 2030.   

Marine litter has become a global problem for humans and marine life alike. However, communities around Ireland have demonstrated their desire to be part of the solution by taking part in several beach cleaning calls to action. Clean Coasts are once more asking you to join us and take action to protect the ocean.  

Making sure litter is collected and disposed of properly at the source is vital for a cleaner ocean and a greener world for all of us to enjoy.  

In 2021, the initiative changed its name from “World Oceans Day” to “World Ocean Day”. By dropping the “s”, its organisers wanted to highlight the fact that we are all connected by a large ocean. This shared ocean supports all life on the planet, by producing most of the oxygen we breathe and regulating climate. No matter where we live, we all depend on the ocean to survive. 

This means that each piece of marine litter removed from a beach, river, lake, park or street in Ireland, will have a positive impact on a global scale. 

 

 

Request a kit

 

If you can’t join this June

Do a #2minutebeachclean

 

When visiting the beach or park, do a quick #2minutebeachclean or #2minutestreetclean

BreaK up with Plastic

 

#BreakUpWithPlastic and find yourself a better and more sustainable match

 

If you can’t refuse, reduce, or reuse, learn where and how to recycle all types of waste

Learn about sewage related litter

 

Think Before You Flush’: sanitary waste is very harmful to marine life, put a bin in your bathroom and only flush the 3 P’s, (Paper, Pee, Poo)

Never litter!

 

Never litter! Always dispose of your waste properly and if a bin is overflowing, hold onto your rubbish until you can dispose of it properly

 

Avoid cosmetics that contain micro-plastic beads. For more information see here

 

Learn more about marine biodiversity in Ireland and how marine litter it’s impacting them

Talk to your community

 

Let others know they can register to carry out a clean-up or talk to your community about things that can be done to be more sustainable

 

Learn how to reduce your carbon footprint, from embracing slow fashion, to greening your money, cycling or walking more, avoiding food waste, etc…

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