Beautiful Beaches
We love our coasts and oceans and want them litter free. We clean up beaches and deliver education to prevent litter, particularly single-use plastics.
Healthy Waters
Our rivers need our help. We restore waterways by planting trees, educating people on the problems facing freshwater, and enabling communities to scale-up local solutions.
Inspired People
People created the challenges we face and people must solve them. We use inspiring events, behavior-focused education and training to enable people to look after the places they love.
Love Your Coast
Beach clean-ups have been central to Sustainable Coastlines since the beginning. But plastic pollution isn’t solved simply by collecting it where it ends up. Love Your Coast adds education into the equation, inspiring positive change in the everyday lives of individuals.
Love Your Water
Keeping our coastlines free of litter is a key aspect of healthy waters, but it isn’t the only one. We created Love Your Water to enable practical action — tree planting — and education on pollution in our inland rivers and lakes.
Litter Intelligence
We cannot improve what we do not measure, and this programme collects litter data, provides powerful insights about the problem, and inspires widespread action for solutions. We train Citizen Scientists around Aotearoa to monitor their local stretch of coastline, providing rigorous data to improve decision-making to solve our litter problem.
Sustainable Coastlines was launched in 2009 with our first signature event: a clean-up of Aotea / Great Barrier Island. Sam joined forced with James, Camden Howitt and a team of organisers to bring together 700 volunteers from schools, the local community, and the mainland for a massive clean-up over two days. The volunteers removed 2.8 tonnes of litter and the event garnered huge media attention.
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