Clean Oceans International
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Fighting plastic pollution for cleaner oceans & a healthier planet. Follow for cleanup updates, beach adoptions & ways to help.
🌊 Donate: cleanoceansinternational.org/donate.html
🌊 Donate: cleanoceansinternational.org/donate.html
Welcoming Amelia Labbe as Executive Director of Clean Oceans International. With a background in marine science and fieldwork, she’s focused on careful data, expanding programs, strengthening funding systems, and growing COI partnerships.
#CleanOceansInternational #MarineScience #PlasticPollution
#CleanOceansInternational #MarineScience #PlasticPollution
December 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Welcoming Amelia Labbe as Executive Director of Clean Oceans International. With a background in marine science and fieldwork, she’s focused on careful data, expanding programs, strengthening funding systems, and growing COI partnerships.
#CleanOceansInternational #MarineScience #PlasticPollution
#CleanOceansInternational #MarineScience #PlasticPollution
Thank you to everyone who supported our mission last week! Your contributions help us monitor and reduce plastic pollution year-round through community science and education. Missed Giving Tuesday? Donations are welcome anytime. 🌊 #ThankYou #CleanOceans #CommunityScience #OceanConservation
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Thank you to everyone who supported our mission last week! Your contributions help us monitor and reduce plastic pollution year-round through community science and education. Missed Giving Tuesday? Donations are welcome anytime. 🌊 #ThankYou #CleanOceans #CommunityScience #OceanConservation
Power Community Science for Cleaner Oceans
It’s #GivingTuesday! We’re grateful for everyone who’s supported COI this year! If you’d like to give, every amount helps us expand community-science shoreline monitoring and protect our coasts.
Donate: cleanoceansinternational.org/giving-tuesday.html 💙
It’s #GivingTuesday! We’re grateful for everyone who’s supported COI this year! If you’d like to give, every amount helps us expand community-science shoreline monitoring and protect our coasts.
Donate: cleanoceansinternational.org/giving-tuesday.html 💙
December 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Power Community Science for Cleaner Oceans
It’s #GivingTuesday! We’re grateful for everyone who’s supported COI this year! If you’d like to give, every amount helps us expand community-science shoreline monitoring and protect our coasts.
Donate: cleanoceansinternational.org/giving-tuesday.html 💙
It’s #GivingTuesday! We’re grateful for everyone who’s supported COI this year! If you’d like to give, every amount helps us expand community-science shoreline monitoring and protect our coasts.
Donate: cleanoceansinternational.org/giving-tuesday.html 💙
We’re proud to partner with @CabrilloCollege — a Hispanic-Serving Institution and California’s #1 community college. With Prof. Lauren Hanneman & our Educ. Dir. David Schwartz, we’re helping students build real-world coastal science skills.
#STEMEducation #CabrilloCollege #CleanOceansInternational
#STEMEducation #CabrilloCollege #CleanOceansInternational
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
We’re proud to partner with @CabrilloCollege — a Hispanic-Serving Institution and California’s #1 community college. With Prof. Lauren Hanneman & our Educ. Dir. David Schwartz, we’re helping students build real-world coastal science skills.
#STEMEducation #CabrilloCollege #CleanOceansInternational
#STEMEducation #CabrilloCollege #CleanOceansInternational
One week until #GivingTuesday!
Want to jump in early? Your support helps power our shoreline surveys and student fieldwork. 💙🌊
Give anytime: cleanoceansinternational.org/giving-tuesday.html
Want to jump in early? Your support helps power our shoreline surveys and student fieldwork. 💙🌊
Give anytime: cleanoceansinternational.org/giving-tuesday.html
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
One week until #GivingTuesday!
Want to jump in early? Your support helps power our shoreline surveys and student fieldwork. 💙🌊
Give anytime: cleanoceansinternational.org/giving-tuesday.html
Want to jump in early? Your support helps power our shoreline surveys and student fieldwork. 💙🌊
Give anytime: cleanoceansinternational.org/giving-tuesday.html
Proud to partner with Cabrillo College—California’s #1 community college. This fall, Env Sci students have been supporting COI’s EPAP surveys at Seacliff Beach, tracking plastic pollution and building real-world skills in ocean stewardship. #OceanHealth #CoastalScience #PlasticPollution
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Proud to partner with Cabrillo College—California’s #1 community college. This fall, Env Sci students have been supporting COI’s EPAP surveys at Seacliff Beach, tracking plastic pollution and building real-world skills in ocean stewardship. #OceanHealth #CoastalScience #PlasticPollution
In early November, Peralta Community College District interns joined COI for an EPAP survey at Albany Beach, finding an estimated 15,570 macroplastic and 32,000 microplastic pieces. Critical data for understanding Bay pollution! #PlasticPollution #PeraltaColleges #CleanOceansInternational
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
In early November, Peralta Community College District interns joined COI for an EPAP survey at Albany Beach, finding an estimated 15,570 macroplastic and 32,000 microplastic pieces. Critical data for understanding Bay pollution! #PlasticPollution #PeraltaColleges #CleanOceansInternational
Your #GivingTuesday gift fuels ocean protection — from local cleanups to global data tracking. Every dollar counts. 🌊💙
#CleanOceansInternational #GivingTuesday #OceanConservation
#CleanOceansInternational #GivingTuesday #OceanConservation
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Your #GivingTuesday gift fuels ocean protection — from local cleanups to global data tracking. Every dollar counts. 🌊💙
#CleanOceansInternational #GivingTuesday #OceanConservation
#CleanOceansInternational #GivingTuesday #OceanConservation
COI welcomes Emily Ramirez, our new Social Media & Outreach Intern! Supported by Digital NEST, Santa Cruz Works, and the City of Santa Cruz. Emily brings strong storytelling and digital media skills to expand COI’s reach. Welcome Emily!
#CleanOceansInternational #DigitalNest #SantaCruzWorks
#CleanOceansInternational #DigitalNest #SantaCruzWorks
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
COI welcomes Emily Ramirez, our new Social Media & Outreach Intern! Supported by Digital NEST, Santa Cruz Works, and the City of Santa Cruz. Emily brings strong storytelling and digital media skills to expand COI’s reach. Welcome Emily!
#CleanOceansInternational #DigitalNest #SantaCruzWorks
#CleanOceansInternational #DigitalNest #SantaCruzWorks
Sally Scholz Cleanup Results: 26 volunteers, 95 lbs collected, 1,746 items removed! 💪 66% plastic | 57% weathered. Plastic persists—but so does our community’s dedication. Thanks to everyone (& @PeetsCoffee) for keeping Sally’s spirit alive! ☕ #SantaCruz #CleanOceansInternational #CoastalCleanup
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Sally Scholz Cleanup Results: 26 volunteers, 95 lbs collected, 1,746 items removed! 💪 66% plastic | 57% weathered. Plastic persists—but so does our community’s dedication. Thanks to everyone (& @PeetsCoffee) for keeping Sally’s spirit alive! ☕ #SantaCruz #CleanOceansInternational #CoastalCleanup
🌊 Act locally, impact globally. Join a cleanup, reduce single-use plastics, and give back this #GivingTuesday (Dec 2).
Your support fuels COI’s programs to monitor pollution and create usable resources from waste plastic. 💙
#PlasticPollution #OceanConservation #CommunityAction
Your support fuels COI’s programs to monitor pollution and create usable resources from waste plastic. 💙
#PlasticPollution #OceanConservation #CommunityAction
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
🌊 Act locally, impact globally. Join a cleanup, reduce single-use plastics, and give back this #GivingTuesday (Dec 2).
Your support fuels COI’s programs to monitor pollution and create usable resources from waste plastic. 💙
#PlasticPollution #OceanConservation #CommunityAction
Your support fuels COI’s programs to monitor pollution and create usable resources from waste plastic. 💙
#PlasticPollution #OceanConservation #CommunityAction
Don’t forget to join us for the 2nd Semi-Annual Sally Scholz Coastal Cleanup tomorrow, November 8th, from 9 AM–Noon at Moran Lake Beach! To reduce waste, bring your own gloves, bucket, and mug. We’ll provide extras, along with coffee and snacks. ☕🪣
#beachcleanup #communityaction #protectouroceans
#beachcleanup #communityaction #protectouroceans
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Don’t forget to join us for the 2nd Semi-Annual Sally Scholz Coastal Cleanup tomorrow, November 8th, from 9 AM–Noon at Moran Lake Beach! To reduce waste, bring your own gloves, bucket, and mug. We’ll provide extras, along with coffee and snacks. ☕🪣
#beachcleanup #communityaction #protectouroceans
#beachcleanup #communityaction #protectouroceans
Five UCSC interns joined COI this fall to gain hands-on experience in coastal plastic monitoring. They completed EPAP field training last month at Twin Lakes Beach and are now surveying sites across Santa Cruz County. #COI #UCSC #PlasticPollution #OceanStewardship #MarineScience
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Five UCSC interns joined COI this fall to gain hands-on experience in coastal plastic monitoring. They completed EPAP field training last month at Twin Lakes Beach and are now surveying sites across Santa Cruz County. #COI #UCSC #PlasticPollution #OceanStewardship #MarineScience
Giving Tuesday (12/2/25) highlights the work that needs ongoing support. COI collects coastal plastic data and evaluates community-scale plastic waste solutions where waste options are limited. Please help us reach our goals.
Donate: www.cleanoceansinternational.org/donate.html
Donate: www.cleanoceansinternational.org/donate.html
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Giving Tuesday (12/2/25) highlights the work that needs ongoing support. COI collects coastal plastic data and evaluates community-scale plastic waste solutions where waste options are limited. Please help us reach our goals.
Donate: www.cleanoceansinternational.org/donate.html
Donate: www.cleanoceansinternational.org/donate.html
Honored to team up with the Amah Mutsun Land Trust for a beach cleanup + EPAP training in Santa Cruz! 🌊💙
AMLT Native Stewards collected 160 debris items while exploring new ways to care for culturally important sites.
Protecting land + ocean, together.
#AmahMutsunLandTrust #CleanOceansInternational
AMLT Native Stewards collected 160 debris items while exploring new ways to care for culturally important sites.
Protecting land + ocean, together.
#AmahMutsunLandTrust #CleanOceansInternational
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Honored to team up with the Amah Mutsun Land Trust for a beach cleanup + EPAP training in Santa Cruz! 🌊💙
AMLT Native Stewards collected 160 debris items while exploring new ways to care for culturally important sites.
Protecting land + ocean, together.
#AmahMutsunLandTrust #CleanOceansInternational
AMLT Native Stewards collected 160 debris items while exploring new ways to care for culturally important sites.
Protecting land + ocean, together.
#AmahMutsunLandTrust #CleanOceansInternational
Nothing beats a Saturday morning by the beach! Join us Nov 8, 9 AM–Noon at Moran Lake Beach for the 2nd Sally Scholz Coastal Cleanup — honoring a community member whose love for the ocean still inspires us.
Let’s do good together 💪💙
#CleanOceansInternational #SantaCruz #CommunityCleanup
Let’s do good together 💪💙
#CleanOceansInternational #SantaCruz #CommunityCleanup
October 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Nothing beats a Saturday morning by the beach! Join us Nov 8, 9 AM–Noon at Moran Lake Beach for the 2nd Sally Scholz Coastal Cleanup — honoring a community member whose love for the ocean still inspires us.
Let’s do good together 💪💙
#CleanOceansInternational #SantaCruz #CommunityCleanup
Let’s do good together 💪💙
#CleanOceansInternational #SantaCruz #CommunityCleanup
Moran Lake Beach results are in! For the 40th #InternationalCoastalCleanup, COI + @PacificPaw volunteers removed 61.5 lbs of debris (554) — including 235 cig. butts, 67 wrappers, 9 foam pieces, 7 toys, and 1 metal chair.
COI team: 21 lbs | Monterey Bay prelim: 4,500+ lbs!
#ICC, #COI, #PacificPaw
COI team: 21 lbs | Monterey Bay prelim: 4,500+ lbs!
#ICC, #COI, #PacificPaw
September 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Moran Lake Beach results are in! For the 40th #InternationalCoastalCleanup, COI + @PacificPaw volunteers removed 61.5 lbs of debris (554) — including 235 cig. butts, 67 wrappers, 9 foam pieces, 7 toys, and 1 metal chair.
COI team: 21 lbs | Monterey Bay prelim: 4,500+ lbs!
#ICC, #COI, #PacificPaw
COI team: 21 lbs | Monterey Bay prelim: 4,500+ lbs!
#ICC, #COI, #PacificPaw
Grab your gloves/buckets and join us for International Coastal Cleanup Day! We’re teaming up with Pacific Paw, a SC business dedicated to healthy pets, to make Moran Lake Beach cleaner and healthier. Every piece counts!
Sept 20 | 9 AM–Noon | Moran Lake Beach
#InternationalCoastalCleanup #CleanOceans
Sept 20 | 9 AM–Noon | Moran Lake Beach
#InternationalCoastalCleanup #CleanOceans
September 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Grab your gloves/buckets and join us for International Coastal Cleanup Day! We’re teaming up with Pacific Paw, a SC business dedicated to healthy pets, to make Moran Lake Beach cleaner and healthier. Every piece counts!
Sept 20 | 9 AM–Noon | Moran Lake Beach
#InternationalCoastalCleanup #CleanOceans
Sept 20 | 9 AM–Noon | Moran Lake Beach
#InternationalCoastalCleanup #CleanOceans
On 8/19/25, COI + DaVita Kidney Care joined forces at Twin Lakes Beach! In just 1 hour, 6 amazing volunteers removed 122 pieces of trash (68 plastic + 54 non-plastic). 💪Huge thanks to DaVita for supporting cleaner oceans! 🌊 #DaVitaKidneyCare #CleanOceansInternational #PlasticPollution #BeachCleanup
September 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
On 8/19/25, COI + DaVita Kidney Care joined forces at Twin Lakes Beach! In just 1 hour, 6 amazing volunteers removed 122 pieces of trash (68 plastic + 54 non-plastic). 💪Huge thanks to DaVita for supporting cleaner oceans! 🌊 #DaVitaKidneyCare #CleanOceansInternational #PlasticPollution #BeachCleanup
Six cigarette butts in just 4 feet of Harbor sidewalk - 15 feet from the ocean. 🚬🌊 They’re plastic. They don’t biodegrade -they fragment into toxic microplastics. Santa Cruz has taken an important step: filtered cigarettes won’t be sold here starting in 2027. #PlasticPollution #OceanHealth #COI
September 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Six cigarette butts in just 4 feet of Harbor sidewalk - 15 feet from the ocean. 🚬🌊 They’re plastic. They don’t biodegrade -they fragment into toxic microplastics. Santa Cruz has taken an important step: filtered cigarettes won’t be sold here starting in 2027. #PlasticPollution #OceanHealth #COI
CMDR Day 2: LCA of a derelict fishing net - from reef to recycled plastic lumber. Every step adds cost: fuel, labor, emissions, & energy. Then to H-POWER, where 2,000 trucks/day = 700,000 tons/year of trash converted to electricity. The landfill is just a backup - and nearly full. #CMDR #HPOWER
July 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Day 1 at CMDR: A stellar team - led by Mafalda de Freitas, M.S., with Co-Director Dr. Jennifer Lynch - guided participants through recycling methods and derelict fishing gear sourcing. Roughly 80% of Hawaiʻi's marine debris is ALDFG from distant fleets. More to come. #PlasticPollution #CMDR #HPU
July 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Day 1 at CMDR: A stellar team - led by Mafalda de Freitas, M.S., with Co-Director Dr. Jennifer Lynch - guided participants through recycling methods and derelict fishing gear sourcing. Roughly 80% of Hawaiʻi's marine debris is ALDFG from distant fleets. More to come. #PlasticPollution #CMDR #HPU
On the first swim in O‘ahu waters, a piece of biofouled marine debris floated right in front of COI’s Executive Director - a fitting start to a week focused on solutions.
COI will post daily updates from the CMDR Recycling Marine Debris course. Stay tuned.
#COI #CenterforMarineDebrisResearch
COI will post daily updates from the CMDR Recycling Marine Debris course. Stay tuned.
#COI #CenterforMarineDebrisResearch
July 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
On the first swim in O‘ahu waters, a piece of biofouled marine debris floated right in front of COI’s Executive Director - a fitting start to a week focused on solutions.
COI will post daily updates from the CMDR Recycling Marine Debris course. Stay tuned.
#COI #CenterforMarineDebrisResearch
COI will post daily updates from the CMDR Recycling Marine Debris course. Stay tuned.
#COI #CenterforMarineDebrisResearch
Our July 5 beach cleanup was a success: 14 volunteers, 97 pounds of trash, and a real sense of community. 💙 Thank you to everyone who showed up, connected, and helped protect the ocean together! 🌊☕🍪
#BeachCleanup #CommunityAction #CleanOceansInternational #SantaCruz
#BeachCleanup #CommunityAction #CleanOceansInternational #SantaCruz
July 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Our July 5 beach cleanup was a success: 14 volunteers, 97 pounds of trash, and a real sense of community. 💙 Thank you to everyone who showed up, connected, and helped protect the ocean together! 🌊☕🍪
#BeachCleanup #CommunityAction #CleanOceansInternational #SantaCruz
#BeachCleanup #CommunityAction #CleanOceansInternational #SantaCruz
This was the beach near our office at 1pm today - packed with people... and trash. Join us tomorrow, July 5, 8–11 AM, for a post-holiday cleanup at SEABRIGHT BEACH. Free coffee + cookies! Let’s stop the litter before it hits the ocean. 🌊☕🍪
#BeachCleanup #4thofJuly #OceanConservation
#BeachCleanup #4thofJuly #OceanConservation
July 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This was the beach near our office at 1pm today - packed with people... and trash. Join us tomorrow, July 5, 8–11 AM, for a post-holiday cleanup at SEABRIGHT BEACH. Free coffee + cookies! Let’s stop the litter before it hits the ocean. 🌊☕🍪
#BeachCleanup #4thofJuly #OceanConservation
#BeachCleanup #4thofJuly #OceanConservation