Sustainable Coastlines Charitable Trust
Auckland, NZ 🇳🇿
"We are a New Zealand charity that exists to protect the moana we all love by bringing people together to reduce plastic pollution and other litter.
Our goal is to see 60% less litter on the coastlines of Aotearoa New Zealand by 2030. We intend to achieve this by empowering communities to take action for their local beach through coastal clean-up events, educational programmes, public awareness campaigns, and litter data collection.
Since we began in 2009, our volunteers have removed more than 1.7 million litres of litter from coastlines across Aotearoa. Most commonly, that litter includes things like food wrappers, polystyrene, rope, bottle tops, and cigarette butts. Removing this harmful litter from our marine environment makes for happier ecosystems and healthier wildlife.
But to stop the flow of plastic pollution and other litter to our coastlines, we need to look upstream. When people attend a beach clean-up and see the problem first-hand, we see the sparks of behaviour change. Alongside the changes people can make in their everyday lives, Sustainable Coastlines enables people to ask the right questions and take action to influence broader change."
https://sustainablecoastlines.org/about/mission/
