Meet Ireland’s Ocean Heroes! Winners from across Ireland were surprised by Clean Coasts to celebrate being Ocean Heroes Over the past two weeks, Clean Coasts have honoured winning groups, individuals, communities and businesses who have won an Ocean Hero Award for outstanding work and commitment to their coastlines and areas. Each year, the Ocean Hero Awards honour [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
10 February 2020 | Clean Coasts’ Valentine’s Day initiative #BreakUpWithPlastic is back again. This February 14th, Clean Coasts is challenging people from all over Ireland to end their toxic relationship with single use plastic and find a more suitable match – how about a bamboo toothbrush or a reusable straw? With the #BreakUpWithPlastic initiative, Clean [...]
Think Before You Flush on World Toilet Day Clean Coasts, Irish Water and the National College of Art and Design unveil an installation of 4 toilets with a difference 19 November, 2019 | Clean Coasts, Irish Water and the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) have collaborated to highlight the “Think Before You Flush” campaign [...]
Clean Coasts’ Love Your Coast Photography Awards 2019 took place in Dublin During the 10th anniversary of this competition, the best coastal shots of Ireland have been awarded a prize fund of €5,000 24 October 2019 | Last night, Clean Coasts’ Love Your Coast Photography Awards were held in The Morrison Hotel, Dublin 1, where [...]