Jamaica Beach Guide

About The Day

International Coastal Clean-Up Day (ICCD) is traditionally celebrated annually on the third Saturday in September. This year, the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) and its partners will focus on a two-day staging of clean-up at two flagship locations to conduct clean-up activities: Shipwreck in the Palisadoes-Port Royal Protected Area, Kingston on the 20 September 2025, and at Half Moon Bay Beach, St. Catherine on the 21 September 2025.This specially designated activity allows volunteers worldwide to visit beaches and waterways to remove accumulated debris and other garbage. The aim is to thoroughly clean coastal areas and collect valuable local and international data on the types and quantities of solid waste present along the coastline.

Over the past 33 years, Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Clean-up Day (ICCD), has become the world’s largest volunteer effort for ocean health. ICCD is traditionally celebrated on the third Saturday in September of each year. The International Coastal Clean-up offers a hands-on opportunity to make a difference at the local community level. On this specially designated day, thousands of volunteers from over 100 countries will spend their morning collecting millions of pounds of litter and debris on inland roadsides, coastal areas, inland lakes and rivers. The objective of this exercise is to clean up the coastal areas as far as is possible and to collect valuable local and international data on the type of solid waste that has accumulated along the coastline.

The collection of this data by clean-up volunteers of all ages and the resulting report prepared by The Ocean Conservancy is used in the following ways:

1. To raise awareness of the quantities and types of marine debris;
2. To determine the various sources of marine debris;
3. To evaluate the impact of marine debris on wildlife and habitat;
4. To assist in the enforcement of regulations against illegal dumping;
5. To influence industries that manufacture products that cause harm to the marine environment

JET releases results of International Coastal Cleanup Day Jamaica 2023 National Report. Click below to view the report.

International Coastal Cleanup Day Jamaica 2023

Why Volunteer

When you volunteer at a bleach clean-up event you will be engaged in an educational and rewarding experience by helping to combat the problem of litter along our coastline. Volunteering helps to keep our beaches clean for everyone to enjoy.

Volunteers from communities, schools, churches, service clubs and environmentally conscious organizations will have a chance to assist in this worldwide effort to clean and protect the environment by removing beach litter that injures wildlife, contaminates our coastline and waterways, and threatens public safety.

This event cannot happen without your help.

Registration is now open!

Click the link or scan the below to register:

Individual registration:

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Individual registration:

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For additional information please contact:

Ms. Ebonique Blair- Beaches Coordinator (Acting) at eboniqueblair@nepa.gov.jm or 876-754-7540 ext 3118