Stemming the tide of plastic pollution in our ocean
Marine Debris Campaign
Marine Debris Campaign
Australia's coastlines have never been more vulnerable. Our ocean is drowning from the tidal wave of plastic pollution. For marine life, this means the fight to survive each day is relentless.
Our Australia-wide campaign is driving community change through education and beach clean-ups, empowering people to realise every piece counts.
Marine Debris Campaign
Combatting the growing tide of marine debris
Join our fight against plastic pollution
In 2016, we started a nationwide campaign to clean up Australia's waterways and beaches. Since then, passionate volunteers have removed over seven million pieces of trash from polluting our ocean.
Sea Shepherd is committed to promoting and facilitating family friendly coastal and river clean-up activities and inspiring the community, businesses and industry to take action in support of the protection and conservation of local marine environments.
Marine Debris Campaign
The Problems with Plastic Pollution
Plastic is both durable and indestructible - it's one of our greatest innovations, but also one of the worst.
Marine plastic pollution has created a major environmental problem and without action it is estimated that the plastic in our ocean will outweigh our fish by 2050.
Marine Debris Campaign
The Solution
The convenience of plastic is creating devastating environmental and social impacts, but it’s not too late to stem the tide.
50% of all plastic produced makes single-use items with a life span of just 12 minutes, and this is where your power lies. Take action today by eliminating these single-use items from your everyday life and picking up trash before it enters the ocean.
Marine Debris Campaign
Clean-up Events
Take Action – Join a clean-up
Each month, Sea Shepherd Marine Debris Teams around Australia host local beach and waterway clean-ups.
Make sure to follow our Marine Debris Campaign Facebook page for updates on how and where you can join us in stemming the tide of marine plastic pollution.
Marine Debris Campaign
Marine Debris Campaign Data
Since Sea Shepherd Australia launched our national Marine Debris Campaign in 2016, our volunteer marine debris teams have sorted and counted 3.6 million pieces of trash.
As citizen scientists, sharing our data with the community is something we are passionate about – from knowledge we can create change.