US SR588

Celebrates 2025 as the 40th anniversary of the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC), which began in 1986 along the Texas coastline and has grown to operate in over 155 countries

Nearly 19 million volunteers have participated since 1986, removing over 400 million pounds of ocean trash from beaches and waterways worldwide

Over 70 percent of ocean trash items collected through the ICC over the past four decades in the United States have been single-use plastics

Encourages Americans to participate in ICC activities and highlights the importance of reducing plastic pollution at its source by producing less plastics

ICC data collection has created the world's largest citizen science ocean trash database with over 420 million items tracked, used in 43 peer-reviewed scientific papers