Families, Individuals and Community Groups
You can make a difference
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Participate with us
Ocean Wise Shoreline Cleanups provide North Americans the opportunity to take action in their community, wherever water meets land.
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Shoreline Cleanups are a great way to get outside with your friends and family while making a difference in your community. The satisfaction you'll feel when you've joined a cleanup is hard to describe. You'll need to try it to find out!
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Each year, citizen science data collected by the Ocean Wise Shoreline Cleanup reveal the “Dirty Dozen,” a list of the most-found litter across Canada.
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At the end of each year, we compile the litter data we've collected into an Impact Report, which can be accessed here.
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Every Ocean Wise Shoreline Cleanup participant is a citizen scientist. While our volunteers are out collecting litter, they also collect indispensable data, which we compile in our national litter database and share it locally and internationally.