Team Clean

Can you help us protect this beautiful world heritage coastline?

Lutruwita / Tasmania's remote southwest coast is home to some of the most beautiful and inaccessible beaches and bays on the planet. These unique coastal ecosystems are formally protected in Tasmania’s World Heritage Area. 

But every single day, thousands of pieces of plastic wash up onto the shore, placing the ecological integrity of this spectacularly wild place at risk, polluting ancient cultural living sites, and endangering the lives of the wonderful winged and salty creatures that inhabit this special little corner of the world. 

Our oceans and coastlines are choking on this plastic.

Luckily, Team Clean are on the case! 

We are a 100% not-for-profit volunteer expedition dedicated to protecting these extraordinary beaches.

This April, a dedicated team of our expert volunteer beach cleaners will once again embark on an epic expedition. We'll be slogging our guts out to clean up the mountain of rubbish that washes up on this spectacular coastline.

Over 70,000 pieces of dirty polluting rubbish.

Unfortunately, that's not a typo — our 2023 expedition cleaned up 72,167 items of rubbish from these World Heritage listed beaches and coves. We know this because every single night, after a long day's work cleaning, our volunteer team painstakingly counts and classifies a mountain of trash on deck.

We need your help: please chip in and help keep Tassie's wildest beaches free from plastic pollution.

Cleaning up these incredibly remote ecosystems doesn’t come cheap. By donating to this 100% non-profit volunteer expedition, you can do your bit to support this important work and help us protect this beautiful wild coastline.

Over the past two decades, Team Clean have removed, counted and classified a whopping 783,222 items of rubbish from these remote beaches. 98% of this unfortunate haul is made of plastic.

The cleanup is a powerful tool for public education, advocacy and behaviour change. It plays a unique part in the global campaign to tackle marine debris, protect our oceans and promote smart and practical solutions to this mega problem.

We dream of oceans and beaches that are free from toxic pollution. Are you with us?

Cleaning up some of the world’s most remote and inaccessible beaches does not come cheap. 

Most of the beaches targeted by the cleanup are accessible only by sea via fishing boats and dinghies, piloted by some of Tasmania's finest and most highly-skilled skippers, who volunteer their time to make sure the team gets ashore safely.

By making a donation to this 100% volunteer-run non-profit expedition, you will be contributing to:

• The significant transport costs required to access these remote areas;
• High energy food to keep our hardy volunteers out on the beaches and cleaning for as long as possible each day;
• The purchasing of essential tools to help us with the rubbish collection and with the important collection of data, so we can measure not only our progress, but the long term impacts of marine debris on the wild beaches of Tasmania’s west coast.

Can you help us protect Tassie's World Heritage beaches from dirty plastic pollution?  Please give generously ♡

Want to learn more?

Keep up to speed on all things cleanup ~ follow us on Instagram and Facebook, or visit our blog.

Watch Team Clean on the news, in 2021 and 2020.

And check out Oscar Wyatt's beautiful short film about the 2021 expedition.

Photos by Emily Wilson, Jess Leitmanis, Ula Majewski, Albert Wyatt, Matt Dell and Oscar Wyatt ♡