The MISSION of The Clean Wave is simple yet ambitious, to clean all 600 beaches in Costa Rica every week.
Why is it important?
The Clean Wave focuses on energizing and enabling their local communities to be empowered to make meaningful impacts and zero waste commitments. A sample of motivating factors for The Clean Wave’s efforts is that 100 percent of baby sea turtles will have plastic in their stomachs; this statistic is more alarming as Costa Rica is home to Leatherback Turtles. Eighty-eight percent of the sea’s surface is polluted by plastic waste, meaning one in three fish caught for human consumption contains some form of plastic. Lastly, the world produces 381 million tons of plastic yearly, with only nine percent of that being recycled.