Beach Relief

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About Us

We just started picking...

We clean up beaches every chance we get. After meeting in the Bahamas in 2017, our lives starting revolving around the beach. A few months after we met, we were in St. Augustine, FLA and Wood started picking up trash.I looked at him, puzzled at first, and then shocked at the amount of garbage he found. After joining him, I was shocked at what I found. "Beach picking" as we called it quickly became a habit. Beach Relief was born.

Since 2017, we have done well over 820 beach clean ups in three countries and picked up thousands of items such as plastic bottles, plastic bottle caps, micro plastics, balloons and ribbons, plastic straws, single use cutlery, plastic bags, aluminum cans, lighters, sunglasses, flip flops along with countless other amounts of miscellaneous trash.

Doing what we can, one beach at a time.

We never leave our home for without a bag to collect trash. You could say we are now addicted to it. Our goal, we want EVERYONE to be! Trust us, there is unfortunately enough out there for everyone! Trash on our beaches and in our oceans is only one part of the problem.

Plastic. Plastic lasts forever, and we are seeing evidence of this MAJOR problem everywhere, not just on the beaches, but in the oceans, in the bellies of wildlife, in our water and in our food.

Our Mission

We want to do what we can. We want to show others that everything they do helps, even if it is a simple as never buying bottled water again, or picking up that trash you see on the way to your car in a parking lot.

At Beach Relief, we strive to do the following:

Beach Clean ups.

Educate ourselves and others.

Awareness through social media and public events.

Conscious Consumerism.

Home - Start in the home to reduce, reuse, recycle and REFUSE.

MISSION STATEMENT: Beach Relief is an international effort consistently removing plastic and trash from our coastlines and earth, while striving to bring awareness to individuals and educate about conscious consumerism.

Our Bios

Wood Belcher

Tenille Maher-Belcher

Education: Old Dominion University, B.A.

Favourite Reads: A Trip to the Beach Melinda Blanchard, Out-Island Doctor Evans W. Cottman

Favourite Quote: "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." George Addair

Tenille Maher-Belcher

Education: University of Toronto, B.A.

Favourite Reads: The Pocket Pema Chodron Pema Chodron, The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood

Favourite Quote: "Isn't the past kind? It's always over." Bryon Katie

Beach Relief

Beach Clean Ups and Trashy Tips

Picking up trash wherever you live and wherever you go is one way EVERYONE can help.

There are LOTS of other things we can all do to help, and it will take one step at a time. In our day to day life, reducing plastic is possible, but eliminating it completely isn't very realistic. We don't need to resort to hard core 'eco-extremes' to mak

Picking up trash wherever you live and wherever you go is one way EVERYONE can help.

Need volunteer hours for any school or community programs? Want to have a Beach Clean up but not sure where to start? We can help!

Do what you can, even the little things make a big difference.

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It's the Little Things

Together for a Change

Beach Clean Ups and Trashy Tips

We are a non profit organization that works individually, and along side groups like 4Ocean and other environmental protection groups with common goals to make a difference.

We want to focus on making the maximum positive effort to clean up our beaches and oceans, and we can't do it alone. Our pollution problem is a global problem. It is a

We are a non profit organization that works individually, and along side groups like 4Ocean and other environmental protection groups with common goals to make a difference.

We want to focus on making the maximum positive effort to clean up our beaches and oceans, and we can't do it alone. Our pollution problem is a global problem. It is a crisis, and we all must work together to help fix it.

Follow us and others on social media, support other clean up and environmental organizations, join a clean up group where you live, buy products and donate to causes you believe in. We aren't in competition with each other. By working together we get more done!

Check out these other AWESOME organizations to learn more!

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Together for a change

Say NO to Plastic, please.

Change begins at home and direct action to change our consumer habits is paramount. As we work to get all of the corporate giants use less or use NO plastic, we need to start with ourselves.

At Beach Relief, we strive to REFUSE when we can, reuse, recycle and reduce plastic use.

Click below and buy products from new eco-friendly compan

Change begins at home and direct action to change our consumer habits is paramount. As we work to get all of the corporate giants use less or use NO plastic, we need to start with ourselves.

At Beach Relief, we strive to REFUSE when we can, reuse, recycle and reduce plastic use.

Click below and buy products from new eco-friendly companies that have developed innovative products to help you reduce and refuse plastic use, or recycle plastic to creative uses. Looking for a special gift - choose a plastic alternative!!

Click below on ways you can find ways to reduce YOUR plastic use. Yes, it matters.

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Say NO to Plastic!

What we have been up to

Say NO to Plastic, please.

Interested in knowing more about Beach Relief and what we have done so far? Check this out!

What we have been up to