Taking on Plastic Pollution Together
Educating about plastic pollution and how we can all make a difference for cleaner seas and a brighter future!
Welcome to Flossie
and the Beach Cleaners
Every wave that kisses the shore carries with it a message—a call to action. At Flossie and the Beach Cleaners, we’ve heeded that call, turning our passion for the sea into a mission to protect it. Based in the stunning landscapes of Ireland, we are a registered marine environmental charity dedicated to safeguarding our precious oceans from the devastating impact of plastic pollution.
Marine Guardians
Fun with Purpose
Hope for Tomorrow
20KG
Average waste collected
each beach clean-up.
Our Virtual Christmas Tree
Help us fill our tree with support for cleaner oceans this Christmas.
This Christmas, instead of corporate gifts or hampers, we invite your company to support Flossie and The Beach Cleaners.
Your donation will help us continue our work in 2027, inspiring people, protecting our oceans and creating more inclusive and cleaner communities in Ireland and around the world.
Add Your Bauble to Our Tree
When your company makes a donation, we’ll add a bauble with your logo to our virtual Christmas tree.
Each bauble represents a business helping to create cleaner oceans, happier communities and brighter futures for generations to come.
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Get Involved!
Join hands, clean shores, inspire change – be part of our ocean-saving community today!
Volunteer
Make a splash in ocean conservation – volunteer with us and be a sea change champion!
Workshops
Dive into interactive workshops that educate, inspire, and empower the next generation of ocean stewards
CSR Days
Elevate your CSR impact with dedicated days focused on preserving marine ecosystems.
Our Impact 2024-2025
We are thrilled to share the incredible impact we’ve made in the last few years, all thanks to the dedication of our passionate community. This image showcases the tangible results of our collective efforts, highlighting key statistics that reflect the heart and soul of our mission.
Whether you’re a long-time supporter or a newcomer, we invite you to be part of our mission. Together, we can make an even bigger difference in preserving the beauty of our coastlines. Thank you for being a crucial part of the “Flossie and the Beach Cleaners” family.
Counties
Cleanups
Volunteers joined
Waste Collected
Our Clean-Ups
At Flossie and the Beach Cleaners, Our clean-up process is designed to be not only effective but also enjoyable, fostering a sense of community and environmental stewardship. Here’s how it works in four simple steps:
Reuse Gloves
We use our gloves again and again, santising them before and after each clean up instead of throwing them away.
Collect with Hemp Bags
We’ve swapped single-use plastic bags for eco-friendly hemp bags. Volunteers collect litter, plastics, and debris in these sturdy, biodegradable bags.
Weigh the rubbish
Weighing rubbish helps us to communicate to others just how much of it there is in our environment as well as to celebrate the efforts of our volunteers!
Have fun
We think beach cleaning is fun! We always find strange and surprising objects and love to take photos and make a #flanksy with what we find to help raise awareness.
Latest News
Explore the heartbeat of our marine conservation efforts and stay up-to-date with the latest developments.
International Outreach
Groups we collaborate with and support around the world.
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Interviews
My Story: Flossie The Beach Cleaner
you can see the full video here:
https://vimeo.com/375987286
Use the password FLOSSIE when prompted
RTEjr / (c) Dyehouse Films 2019
Follow Flossie as she becomes part of the biggest climate protest movement in Irish history and travels to one of the world’s most polluted rivers to see what she can learn.
Episode 1:
We meet Flossie as she explains her unusual hobby. She loves football, cats and rabbits. But she also loves cleaning beaches. Her lone school strike outside Dáil Eireann becomes part of a larger movement and by the end of the episode she is addressing Ireland’s biggest school strike for climate and planning a trip to Indonesia to visit the world’s most polluted river.
My Story: Flossie The Beach Cleaner
you can see the full video here:
https://vimeo.com/375991036
Use the password FLOSSIE when prompted
My Story: Flossie the Beach Cleaner
RTEjr / (c) Dyehouse Films, 2019
Episode 2:
In Indonesia Flossie visits a market which has gone from being plastic free to having a plastic pollution problem. She meets women in the city of Bandung doing the same kind of cleanup work she does at home in Ireland. She visits an inspiring school where children learn by being in nature and visits an environmentalist using plants to clean and protect the Citarum River. She sees the huge effort the Indonesian military have had to put in to get the river back to its natural state.