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Beach cleanup
by B-Green (Private sector)
The goal of beach cleanups is to raise awareness in the population about marine pollution and contribute with it the reduction of garbage and plastic in the ocean. We focus on organizations as we seek to create sustainable communities.

A selected beach is cleaned with corporate volunteers through a service hired by the company as part of its social responsibility. Recyclable waste and garbage are collected in a 1km area. during half a day of cleaning. We counted objects such as cigarette butts, plastic bags, plastic bottles, among others.

The results of the beach cleanups are uploaded to the website TIDES (Trash information and data for education and solutions) of The Ocean Conservancy.

We finance an annual beach cleaning with 500 volunteers with voluntary financial contributions from organizations and volunteers of various districts of Lima.
Progress reports
14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
Type of commitment
NUTRIENTS
  • Other (please specify): increasing population awarness about ocean pollution and reduce the amount of garbage that goes to the ocean
PLASTICS
  • Plastics recovery/recycling/reuse
Dec/2018
In the first year at least 10 tons of garbage including plastic were collected avoiding that they go to the ocean
Staff / Technical expertise
We have a group of volunteers for each cleanup
Other, please specify
We use social networks of our organization and of the organization partners to to spreed information about the importance of the correct waste management and recycling
Basic information
Time-frame: 2017/June - 2019/December
Partners
B-Green (Private sector), Life Out of Plastic - LOOP (private sector, organization with which we have an alliance to develop beach cleanups), Municipality of Lurin (government), Municipality of Chorrillos (government), Municipality of Ventanillla (government), Municipality of Barranco (government), Municipality of Tacna (government), Municipality of Mollendo (government), Municipality of Ilo (government)
Ocean Basins
  • South Pacific
Beneficiary countries
Peru
Other beneficaries
Recyclers associations
Contact information
Claudia Vega, Director, cvega@b-green.pe, 987548698
Lima, Peru
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