This area is actually getting cleaned right now! Most plastic pollution reaches the ocean long before it hits the sand, so the cleanup doesn’t stop at the beach.
Support helps keep the project moving with gear, supplies, travel, cleanup time, and ongoing ocean-focused environmental giving.
This project started pretty simply.
I kept noticing trash everywhere. Beaches, parking lots, sidewalks, storm drains, neighborhoods near the coast. A lot of it was plastic. A lot of it looked like it had been sitting there for weeks. And most of the time, people just walked past it. So I started picking it up.
What began as a personal habit slowly turned into a real cleanup project. Not a nonprofit. Not a corporation. Not a perfectly polished environmental campaign. Just a guy with a grabber, trash bags, a wagon, and a growing belief that small consistent action actually matters.
We're not trying to get rich cleaning beaches. We're doing it for the love of the game, and for the hate of the plastics...
We cap proceeds at $300 per day for gas, gear, food, and time. If support goes beyond that, the extra gets donated. No matter what, 10% is donated off the top.
Plastic removed: 8.6 lbs
Donations received: $88
Cleanup time: 6 hours
Environmental donation: $8.00
Focused on small plastic fragments, wrappers, fishing line, bottle caps, and debris near high-traffic beach access points.
Plastic removed: 8.6 lbs
Donations received: $55
Cleanup time: 6 hours
Environmental donation: $5.50
Focused on small plastic fragments, wrappers, fishing line, bottle caps, and debris near high-traffic beach access points.
Plastic removed: 8.6 lbs
Donations received: $260
Cleanup time: 8 hours
Environmental donation: $26
Focused on small plastic fragments, wrappers, fishing line, bottle caps, and debris near high-traffic beach access points.
Plastic pollution travels through streets, storm drains, rivers, and beaches before eventually reaching the ocean. Today, plastic can be found on coastlines, in waterways, and scattered throughout everyday environments.
Most pollution is not giant piles of trash. It is the small stuff. Bottle caps, foam, wrappers, fishing line, broken plastic fragments, and everyday litter that slowly spreads across beaches and neighborhoods.
Plastic does not break down like natural materials. Instead, it slowly fragments into smaller and smaller pieces that continue circulating through the environment for years.
Birds, fish, turtles, and other marine animals often mistake plastic for food. This can cause injury, starvation, and long-term harm to ocean ecosystems.
Much of the trash found near the ocean does not begin there. Wind, rain, traffic, and storm runoff carry litter from parking lots, streets, and neighborhoods directly toward the coast.
