Pick up whatever fits in one hand
If everyone who sets foot on a beach takes three things away with them, nothing needs organising. It's the easiest rule there is to keep.
None of them will cost you an afternoon. They're grouped by where you do them: beach, hills, home and travel.
If everyone who sets foot on a beach takes three things away with them, nothing needs organising. It's the easiest rule there is to keep.
A single one contaminates litres of water and takes years to go. If you smoke on the beach, a small tin in your bag solves it.
Something lives under every stone at the shoreline. Stone towers look great in photos and leave a fair number of small creatures homeless.
Plenty of birds nest on the ground, between the sand and the grass. If one fakes an injury and walks away from you, you're near the nest: turn back.
Shortcuts open grooves, and grooves become gullies when it rains hard. The long way round is the one that leaves least behind.
A five-minute shower instead of ten, in a hotel that's full all summer, is thousands of litres. On an island that shows.
No barbecue, no camping stove, no glass left in the summer sun. Nearly every coastal fire starts with something somebody assumed was harmless.
Check it has no oxybenzone or octinoxate. It shows in the water and it doesn't cost more.
A refillable bottle and a tap. Half of what gets collected on a beach is single-use plastic nobody needed.
One dirty container spoils the rest of the bin. A quick rinse is the difference between recycling and not recycling.
What's grown next door doesn't cross an ocean to reach you. On an island, local produce is also the produce that travelled least.
Not to show off: because people join what they can see. A photo of a clean-up morning moves more people than any campaign.
If there's a beach, a ravine or a trail that needs it, write to us and we'll organise it.