Ocean Blue Project is a beach cleanup Oregon based nonprofit working to save the ocean by removing microplastics. Ocean Blue is dedicated to protecting our one world Ocean. founded by father-and-son tribal members of the Choctaw Nation, Ocean Blue's vision is that the world's Ocean, beaches, and rivers will once again be pristine, self-sustaining ecosystems where wildlife and human communities can coexist and thrive. together we can protect the blue ocean by lowering the amount of microplastics traveling to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
We are proud of our ocean cleanup volunteers and communities helping to create a cleaner blue ocean by lowering the amount of plastic pollution ending up in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Ocean Blue is learning more about plastic in our ocean facts and how plastic is traveling down rivers into our Ocean.
Be sure to visit Catchafire and Patagonia’s Ocean Blue sites and learn more about how you can get involved in hundreds of virtual volunteer opportunities and in person at local community cleanup projects happening throughout the United States.
Cleanup water is vital. Oceans and lakes are the top of watersheds — areas encompassing any body of water divided by land. They then collect all of the waste that flows from the rivers feeding them, as well as any debris left behind on beaches by tides. Marine waste harms marine wildlife and habitat and has a negative impact on recreational and tourist activities.
But local communities can address this challenge through ocean cleanup community projects when you organize beach or community cleanups.
Coastal cleanup projects reduce the amount of waste on state beaches by literally removing litter and marine debris. Spring is a good time for cleanups, after the winter high tides have left behind plastic debris on our coast lines.
