Beach clean resources

Thanks to volunteers like you, we're able to take action to tackle our ocean crisis, and positive steps to recover our ocean. On this page you'll find useful guides and helpful resources to help you, to help us.

Whether you've been looking at running a beach clean for your community, friends and family, work group or you would like to add a litter survey to your litter picking activities, we have a training session to suit everyone! Each session is run by one of our Beachwatch team, who will talk you through how to plan, organise and run a beach clean and litter survey.

If you're new to beach cleans or you haven't organised one in a while, take a look at our handy training videos. They'll tell you everything you need to know about organising, running and evaluating a beach clean.

During beach cleans we often come across litter we're not sure how to classify. We've created a top 10 list of tricky items and where to record them on your survey form.