UPDATE! We've stretched our target to $6500 to amplify the impact of our education program ♡ 

Can you chip in?

Education is one of the most powerful tools we can use to protect our wild beaches against the wave of toxic plastic pollution. 

Each expedition, Team Clean coordinates an interactive educational blog, where school students can interact daily with a teacher who is embedded on the cleanup. We've worked hard to develop an exciting online education platform that is mapped to the school curriculum. Check out our Coastwatchers program from past years at www.coastwatchers.com.au

Our education program is awesome! We've been encouraging hundreds and hundreds of young people to learn about how amazing the ocean and our wild coastlines are, and what critical threats they are facing. 

Most importantly, our education program has been inspiring young people to love and care for our special wild places, and to take positive action to protect them. 

We have big dreams ♡ 

We want to make Team Clean's education program even more powerful!

Please give generously, and help us:

• Reach more schools AND more students, right across Australia
• Upgrade and refresh our curriculum and get it to the best standard we can, so we can start looking at translating this amazing resource into other languages, and get it out to young people right across the world!
• Pay for extra satellite data to get more fantastic pictures, and maybe even video, out to the kids (it’s really really pricey!)

Can you help us protect these special wild places?

Tasmania's remote southwest coast is home to some of the most beautiful and inaccessible beaches on the planet. These special places form part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.

But a toxic wave of plastic pollution is threatening to destroy these delicate coastal ecosystems. 

Every single day, thousands of pieces of rubbish wash onto our amazing World Heritage beaches, polluting ancient middens, choking our oceans and killing precious marine life and sea birds. 

Luckily, Team Clean are on the case! We are a 100% not-for-profit volunteer expedition dedicated to protecting some of Australia's wildest and most remote coastlines.

This March, a dedicated team of our expert volunteer beach cleaners will embark on another epic expedition. We'll be slogging our guts out to clean up the mountain of rubbish that washes up on these beautiful World Heritage beaches.

Team Clean are committed to making 2020 the biggest cleanup yet! 

Will you help us do the hard yards?

Please chip in now and help protect Tassie's wildest beaches.

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 expedition and help us protect our wild coastal ecosystems.

Over 112,000 pieces of dirty polluting rubbish.

Yep. That's not a typo - the 2018 expedition cleaned up 112,117 pieces of rubbish from these beautiful beaches. We know this because every single night, after a long day's work cleaning, the team painstakingly counts and classifies a mountain of trash on deck.

Since 1999, this dedicated team of Tasmania's most extreme beach cleaners have removed and documented well over half a million pieces of rubbish from the World Heritage Area.

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 wild and beautiful beaches that are free from toxic pollution. 

Are you with us?

Want more info?

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

Watch this amazing feature that ABC's 7:30 screened on the 2015 cleanup!

And check out our drone pilot extraordinaire Rexy's short flic of the 2017 cleanup, right here ... just press play!

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 initiative, 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 ♡

Photos by Emily Wilson, Jess Leitmanis, Ula Majewski, Oscar Wyatt, Kuni Takanami and Simon Bischoff  ♡