MJ in Miami Florida.
Miami based environmental organization focused on creating awareness and educating the public about the negative effects of plastic pollution through weekly cleanups, educational programs and wellness activities. All ages welcome, volunteering hours available.
Community Volunteers
Crew Members
Youth volunteers
Plastic & Waste Collected
Digital Community Members
Events & CleanUps
We will raise funds to help MJ and Clean This Beach Up have more impact! Marias clean ups and events raise awarness for huge groups. We are raising our first round for things like tents, equipment like gloves, wagons, collection tools, transport for waste collected and seperated, marketing for more reach. Our next steps are to help Clean This Beach Up open a facility to sort, recycle, and upcycle the plastic picked up during the cleanups.
Marias has funded Cean This Beach Up on her own, having spent more than $5,000 of her own money for equipment. She is awesome and a great networker and has found support from local partners and groups as well.
$5,000 – Clean up gear (Phase 1)
$2,000 – Logistics
$2,000 – Plastic shredder (Phase 2)
$3,000 – Injector/melti
$ 600 – Tile Molds
$1,000 – Set up equipment
$1,300 – Logistics
$1,100 – Operating costs
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$16,000 – Total
$0 of $16,000
Updated May 22, 2020
Mariajose Algarra
25 years old
Living in Miami Beach and seeing the transition for years of more and more plastic washing up in our beaches and the increment of street litter, made me think twice about my own waste and plastic usage. Traveling around the world and realizing it’s a global crisis motivated me to be the change, and that’s how I started Clean This Beach Up, saving our oceans 1 pound at a time.
Educating people about the effects of plastic pollution and how to live a more sustainable life through weekly cleanups and educational programs.
40 Cleanups
7117 lbs collected
1625 Volunteers
10 Crew members
April 22nd 2019
1625 registered volunteers.
Many schools and students volunteering.
Various local environmental and clean-up groups
Gloves for each volunteer. Pick up claws and bags for collection.
Wagons for hauling, Tents, flags, and coolers for meeting points.
Vehicles for transort of waste.
Open a facility where we can sort and recycle and upcycle the plastic we pick up during the cleanups.
Being able to launch Clean This Beach Up in other locations.
Reaching more volunteers and finding sponsors in the next couple of years so that we can have the fundings to do this.
Funding, outreach, networking.
Miami, USA
$0 of $16,000
Updated May 22, 2020