Beach Cleaning

The volunteer team Beach Cleaning was founded in 2018 by a group of students and carries out underwater and coastal cleaning throughout Greece. Four years later, the students have now become students, having successfully completed more than 70 activities, lifting more than 45 tons of garbage. The purpose of our team is the protection of the environment, and the cleaning of both the coasts of Greece and the seabed from polluting objects. Moreover, what makes our actions so special is the complete recycling of plastics, through the model of the circular economy.

In collaboration with the Swedish Institute of Circular Economics CEEII we separate the plastic from the rest of the garbage, and through a special treatment new objects are created which we then offer back to society. In the years 2020 - 2021, collecting plastic from 28 actions, we managed to create 7 sets of bench and bucket which we gave back to the municipalities where the actions took place.