Who we are...
Oceans Blue Corp is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that was established to prevent further damage to our environment from toxic debris and runoff. We do this through education, prevention, and active removal of debris. It seems as if everywhere a person turns, no matter where they may be, they can find some form of pollution. Whether it be a plastic bag drifting in the wind or a plastic bottle surfing a passing wave. We just can not get away from pollution. Oceans Blue Corp is fighting to change this!
what we do...
We have begun work in a handful of state and national parks across America to help remove litter along shorelines within the parks and come up with solutions to reduce the amount of debris piling up on the prestine beaches we all love.
For this program, we work with volunteers to pick up debris in the parks, preventing it from becoming part of the Garbage Patches floating around our oceans. Volunteers clean a designated section of beach monthly. Recording the size, type of material it is made of, and searching for any hint of its origin before recycling what can be recycled.
This helps the parks understand the amount of debris washing up on shorelines, removes the toxic debris from the environment, and helps come up with solutions to prevent further accumulation.
There are two very serious problems the United States faces currently. One being pollution another being an ever increasing amount of homeless population. Oceans Blue Corp aims to combat both with our Curb It Campaign! The curb it campaign assigns a local homeless person to a specific block in the city of Chicago. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday this volunteer cleans up all the litter he/she finds. It is then collected and recycled. In return, the volunteer receives a meal or good from a vender on the block he/she just cleaned up.
The results of this program leaves the city cleaner and helps our volunteers advance their position in life! If you are a vendor interested in participating in this program, please feel free to reach out to us for more details.
Sticking true to Oceans Blue’s mission of education, we host booths to educate the public on proper recycling, marine debris prevention, and everyday environmental solutions all across the country. At the booths, we play engaging games designed to educate in a fun way through hands-on activities.
Washington State faces a hazardous threat to navigation and environment from large-scale marine debris. The state currently has extremely limited resources and is able to respond to only about 35% of reported large-scale marine debris hazards. To combat this challenge, Oceans Blue Corp is establishing a network built to quickly respond to large-scale marine debris reports, we are in our rookie year and are growing - so reach out if you’re in the area and want to help!