Beach Clean

Cleaning any beach can feel disheartening when you’re faced with more trash than you can remove. Saving the Blue believes every piece of trash collected makes a true difference and so we try to clean at least one part of a beach every time we visit. When we’re unable to visit, we employ a local team of Bahamians to conduct the clean on our behalf.

Khrys, Saving the Blue’s Community Outreach and Education adviser, eagerly led a team to a local beach in Andros to conduct a clean-up. The regular items we find are: single use plastic water bottles and cutlery, shampoo and cosmetic bottles, toothbrushes, bottle caps, plastic bags, balloons, and an endless stream of micro plastics. With a focus on plastics the team got to work and relentlessly filled their bags with trash. After hours of cleaning and once all bags were filled the team relocated the garbage to a local dump for processing.