Sustainable Coasts

We bring people together to protect the moana we all love through beach clean-ups, education, and litter data collection.

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Saturday movie night? Save your potato chip bags 🥔There are a few ways you can help stop this hidden plastic becoming litter:

🧑‍🍳 Try a DIY recipe.
🍿 Replace it with plastic-free snacks.
♻️ Recycle it https://t.co/7ulKE6kuOo

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Thanks to support from our partner Tip Top Trumpet, we welcomed nearly 150 people at Cornwallis Beach, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 🏖️ We took away a whopping 5,420 litres of litter, 108 bags full!

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How can you avoid this hidden plastic? Adopting a reusable cup is a simple way to make a difference — trust us, you’ll never miss them once they’re gone!

📷: https://t.co/iatYmg6tLT

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Who’s ready for an epic beach clean-up followed by free ice creams? ✋ Come along to New Brighton Beach, Ōtautahi on Saturday, November 30!

https://t.co/fOVr8Kk95Y

Huge thanks to our partner, @TipTopNZ for sponsoring this event 🍦🐬

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Images from today's @sustaincoasts beach clean-up of #CornwallisBeach - supported by @TipTopNZ Trumpet, Phoenix Organics drinks and @AklCouncil - For more, see Cornwallis Beach website https://t.co/PIWslINcxn

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Come along to Kulim Park next Saturday for a clean-up and litter survey with us!

This is also your chance to join the local community group, Litter Free Oceans, to help in their Tauranga beach clean-ups every 3 months. Register at the link 👇
https://t.co/VKfAVtbLUv

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Sometimes, single-use plastic is hiding in plain sight 🧐 #GuyFawkes

Ever picked up these odd plastic shells at the beach? It’s great when people clean up their larger fireworks, but little pieces often get missed, and can be especially bad for marine life.

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Please be mindful of your actions this November 5 — take your #fireworks away from beaches and waterways, pick up your waste and take it home, or better still, get creative and celebrate fireworks-free.

📷: Beachside bin snapped by one of our staff, #GuyFawkes 2023.

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#catchyourtrash before it fills our oceans. Support our vision for a world without litter at https://t.co/Bb7aKhwxXi

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This gargantuan trash predator appears in many spooky guises. With an appetite for overbreeding, it can quickly grow from twisted cords, cables, ropes, fishing lines and ghost nets 👻

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Responsible disposal of fishing lines, cords and cables is key to stopping the spread of these ghoulish predators.

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LAST DAY TO SUPPORT @sustaincoasts BY GETTING A KRIL PLUSH!! 🦀⛱️✨️🌊

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#catchyourtrash before it fills our oceans. Support us to reduce Aotearoa’s beach litter https://t.co/Bb7aKhwxXi
🔍Species discovered using https://t.co/sQ5Vej13J0. Data from New Zealand coastal litter surveys between 29 July 2018 and 17 September 2024. Art by Erin Forsyth.

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These hardened blighters are regularly washing up on our shores 🫧 Journeying from gardens and backyards, flushing through drains and into our oceans, they really like to meddle with coastal sea life.

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Litter Intelligence data shows that 2,398 of this trash species have been collected from litter surveys to date - three for every 1,000m2 of coastline surveyed. Keeping your pegs contained and switching to plastic-free will bring down the numbers and keep our oceans Clipi free.

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#catchyourtrash before it fills our oceans. Fight ocean pollution with us by donating at https://t.co/Bb7aKhwxXi
🔍Species discovered using https://t.co/sQ5Vej13J0. Data from New Zealand coastal litter surveys between 29 July 2018 and 17 September 2024. Art by Erin Forsyth.

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This spindly plastic bottom dweller has unfortunately inhabited our oceans for decades, and regularly shows up in Litter Intelligence data surveys. With its deadly shape, it's infamous for snaring unsuspecting marine life 🐧

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Public awareness has meant a decline in plastic drink package rings. However recent reports have noted new varieties breeding in local liquor stores. To avoid a resurgence of this dangerous species, buy your drinks in cardboard.

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Check out our public clean-up events for November! 🌊

Bring your friends, whānau, colleagues, and anyone else you can think of and sign up on our website 👇 See you there!
https://t.co/kyTjawZEHU