what we do to the oceans - we do to ourselves..
Anne M. - Founder of Beach Cleaner
In the 90ties I joined my first beach clean ups in Malaysia on a wonderful coconut palm tree island, Pulau Perhentian Kecil, where I ended up to stay a couple of weeks. The Perhentian Islands were once home to a significant green and hawksbill sea turtle nesting population. Now the islands receive only 300 nestings per year, due to the environmental changes at the coastlines and the sea. The local and international diver community have organized beach & riff clean ups to raise the awareness for clean oceans & beaches.
In 2015 (see picture) I traveled with my little family to the magnificent island Ibiza and we found plastic trash floating in the sea and on beaches. I was shocked that nobody seemed to care about it and started to clean up every day, where ever we spent the day - and my initiative was immediately born.
Inspired by this experience, I have done an international management training (MOOC) about the effects of Marine Litter (a program run by the UNEP and the Open University of the
Netherlands).
I have started to work on a kids education program (kids-for-the-ocean) about marine litter & the fragility of the ocean, the program includes as well alternatives to plastic. All to find in my book now :)
Where ever I am, I strive collecting plastics at beaches in hope for a better marine life - a better planet - a better future.
Anne Mäusbacher anne@beachcleaner.de
(© beachcleaner - founded 2015)
Pulau Perhentian Kecil, Malaysia
The Eco Family
My lovely husband and my passionate son are true ecowarriors and support my idea and initiative from the early stages, back in 2015. Both are always on a plastic trash hunt at beaches, oceans, parks, lake sides, wherever we are.
On our journey to a plastic free household everyone in our family is constantly looking for alternatives to replace old plastic tools with new eco innovative materials and tools.
Without them my household would never be in the stage as it is now. We have reduced our weekly garbage amount by ca. 90%: we separate organic garbage, paper, glas, and the small amount of packaging/plastic we still need to deal with.
The Beach Cleaner Family
(2015)
Eco price city of Nürnberg 2018
Katharina Liedtke-Liss - Partner in crime
We are very pleased and happy to welcome Kathi on board of our journey to a plastic free planet.
Being an ambitious working mum with a huge passion for climate change, sustainability and eco topics it was clear that we finally met and fight together for a cleaner, plastic free world.
Kathi supports us to roll out our ambassador program "kids for the ocean" for kinder garden kids, school kids & teens and organizing beach clean ups.
Katharina Liedtke-Liss
(August 2016)
Silvia Häberlein
Silvia joined us on board already for a while in clean-up activities. Be it
the mountains, the woods or the seaside she deeply admires the diversity and beauty of our planet. Nature gives her confidence, ease and focus. She wants to protect what she loves and that’s what
brought her to beach cleaner.
Silvia will support at the educational Programm of “kids for the ocean” and
at organizing beach clean up events. She will support the first #oceanschool in Morocco later this year.
(May 2020)