Grocery bags … bottles … cigarette butts … wrappers and straws. They don’t fall from the sky; they fall from human hands. And what's washed up on the shore is only a fraction of what ends up in the water. From Baltimore to Bangladesh, Ocean Conservancy leads the world's most astounding grassroots cleanup effort. Every year in September, more than half-a-million people in 100 countries remove millions of pounds of trash from beaches and waterways all over the world. And it all started with one person. Appalled by all the garbage littering the Texas coast, she took action, organizing a cleanup along miles of shoreline. Over 20 years later, our International Coastal Cleanup is one of the largest and most effective volunteer-based conservation projects in the world.
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Recent Press Releases and Advisories
- Ocean Conservancy to Host 25th Annual International Coastal Cleanup on September 25th: Celebrating 25 Years of Global Volunteerism for a Healthier Ocean July 1, 2010
- Ocean Conservancy Report: Trash in Our Ocean has Become One of the Worst Pollution Problems We Face Threatening Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Coastal Economies April 13, 2010
