BEACH CLEANER IS A MOVEMENT TO AN ECO CONSCIOUS WAY OF LIVING & LIFESTYLE WITH THE AIM TO GO PLASTICFREE.
what we do to the oceans - we do to ourselves..
- Back in the 90ties I joined my first reef and beach clean-ups on a wonderful coconut palm tree island, Pulau Perhentian Kecil, Malaysia, 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.
- In 2015 I traveled with my little family to the magnificent island Ibiza and we found to much 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 born overnite.
- Inspired by this experience, I have done an international management and leadership training (MOOC ML 2015) about the effects of Marine Litter (a program run by the UNEP and the Open University of the Netherlands).
- In 2017 I have put the learnings in my book and education programm Kids for the Ocean about marine litter including alternatives to plastic.
- Where ever I am, I strive collecting plastics at beaches in hope for a better marine life - a better planet - a better future.
anne@beachcleaner.de
(© beachcleaner - founded 2015)
Partner in crime
Kathi joins the beach cleaner board already since 2016.
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 is a school board member and supports us to roll out our ambassador program "kids for the ocean" for kinder garden kids, school kids & teens and organizing beach
clean ups, in America, Portland area.
katharina@beachcleaner.de
(August 2016)
My lovely husband and my passionate son are true eco warriors and support my idea and initiative from the early stages. 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)
Our latest edition to the female power house. Caro cleans beaches during her travels and hometown in southern Spain since a couple of years already. She is very active and lives a very conscious life which makes is easy and fun to follow her. We are very happy to welcome her and show her actions to the public from Southern Europe. At the moment she start with Kids Education in Sevilla, supporting the Youth and gives inspiring talks.
(Dec. 2020)
Silvia joined us 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. During her parental leave she is studying at the moment at the Leuphana Universität in Lüneburg / MBA Sustainability Management.
(May 2020)
