Join the 5,000 volunteers who have already registered for the Big Beach Clean Over 200 clean-ups have already been planned for the third weekend of September and Clean Coasts is calling more people to join this international weekend of citizen science Registrations for the Big Beach Clean only opened a couple of weeks ago and 5,000 volunteers from [...]
Join in Dublin’s Biggest clean-up event which will take place from the 11th to the 19th of September. 16 August 2021 | Dublin’s Four Local Authorities, Clean Coasts, National Spring Clean, Local Authority Waters Programme, Dublin City Canals, Dodder Action, residents, volunteers, and community groups county-wide are coming together for Dublin’s largest clean-up event this September. The Dublin Community Clean-up is building [...]
Grab your camera & get snapping as Clean Coasts’ ‘Love Your Coast’ photography competition opens! Clean Coasts’ 12th annual Love Your Coast photography competition is now open for entries. Capture the uniqueness of our coastal communities, environments, or waterways and you have till 9 am on the 30th August 2021 to submit your best images. Last year’s overall competition winning image “Jellyfish and Diver” [...]
This Valentine’s Day it’s time to #BreakUpWithPlastic Did you #BreakUpWithPlastic and find a real keeper? Clean Coasts and Irish Water want you Break Up With Plastic and Think Before You Flush Issued Monday, 01 February 2021 - In the lead up to Valentine’s Day, Clean Coasts in partnership with Irish Water and the [...]
Clean Coasts 2020: Celebrating the winners of this year’s Love Your Coast photography competition The Love Your Coast competition has been an integral part of the Clean Coasts programme for numerous years, as seen last year when we celebrated our 10th anniversary of the competition and showcased photos submitted over the past decade. Being Ireland’s [...]
Hi Clean Coasts Group, June has been an exciting month for the Clean Coasts team and our amazing volunteers: we celebrated World Oceans Day and #2minutebeachclean Day; clean-ups could finally resumes; we released two video projects; we are getting ready for Plastic Free July and, of course, we read about the hard work volunteers have [...]
An update from the Clean Coast team Dear Clean Coasts Volunteers, Yesterday we celebrated World Oceans Day! Here is what the Clean Coasts team were up to: As part of the celebrations, we also hosted a screening of Ken'O Sullivan "Deep Atlantic", which was followed by an interesting chat with Ken. [...]
Hi Clean Coasts Group, Even though we were forced to take a break with our in person events and beach clean activities, a lot has happened in May. We have been continuously looking at opportunities and alternative ways of engaging and educating our communities, sharing stories, ideas and in some small way bringing the coast to [...]
Hi Clean Coasts Group, Due to the current situation, we were forced to take a break with all our planned events and had to ask volunteers to suspend any beach clean activities. However, with the country on lock down, we’ve been looking at how to keep engagement with our fabulous Clean Coasts groups and volunteers [...]
How do you solve a problem like Clean Coasts?! So how does a coastal/ river clean up engagement programme continue to operate during a pandemic lockdown? Being Ireland’s foremost community-based coastal education programme, Clean Coasts counts on the work of over 900 volunteer groups nationwide, engaging 24,000 volunteers. But with the country on lock down [...]