Coastal cleanups
Crews, gloves, grabbers and tide tables. We clear beaches, estuaries and jetties at low tide — and every kilogram comes off the sand across a scale.
1,900+ cleanups run · every kilo weighed & sorted
Ocean conservation · est. 2019
The tide remembers everything we give it.
Driftline runs coastal cleanups, argues marine protected areas into existence, and turns every piece of debris our volunteers log into open data that changes policy. The ocean has been keeping our secrets in plastic. We're going back for them.
[ 0200 m · The problem ]
What we let slip below the surface.
Debris doesn't disappear — it descends. Past the reach of sunlight, past attention, out of mind. Here is what the water is carrying, in numbers.
0M tplastic entering the sea, every year
0kpieces of plastic per km² of surface water
0+marine species entangled or ingesting debris
0%of the ocean fully protected from extraction
The counter-tide
Debris recovered by Driftline crews · tonnes / year[ 0400 m · Programs ]
Three ways we push back.
A cleanup that isn't weighed is a nice afternoon. A cleanup that is weighed, sorted and logged is evidence. Everything Driftline does ends in a dataset someone in a hearing room can't ignore.
MPA advocacy
We turn debris data into protected water — mapping accumulation zones and walking the numbers into marine-protected-area hearings until the line moves on the chart.
9 MPAs won or expanded · 31,000 km² safeguarded
Citizen debris logging
Every walk on the beach becomes fieldwork. Log what you find — type, weight, position — and it lands in the same open dataset our policy team argues from.
96,000 items logged · one open dataset
Join a cleanup
Gear provided. Tide tables consulted. Bring hands.
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Cape Hollow · North Beach
18 of 60 spots left -
Merrow Estuary flats
7 of 40 spots left -
Pelican Slip jetty
33 of 80 spots left
[ 0600 m · Impact ]
Receipts, weighed to the kilogram.
We don't do vibes. Every figure below comes off a scale, a sign-in sheet or a survey log — audited annually and published in the open.
0tdebris removed & weighed since 2019
0volunteers mobilised
0kmcoastline cleaned & surveyed
0kdebris items logged by citizens
What a gift becomes in the water
$10
kits two first-time volunteers — gloves, grabbers, bags and a tide table.
$25
hauls and logs 40 kg of shoreline debris, weighed into open data.
$50
clears 80 kg and funds the sort-and-count that turns waste into evidence.
$100
underwrites a one-kilometre shoreline survey, first glove to final datapoint.
Where a dollar goes
Audited every year. The full Tide Report — financials, tonnage tables, survey maps — ships to every donor and lives in the open.
[ 0800 m · Give ]
Fund the counter-tide.
Give once and the shoreline is lighter by morning. Give monthly and a crew stays supplied, a dataset keeps growing, and somewhere a protected area gets harder to argue against.
Salt water covers most of the planet.
So does what we do next.