Bring your hands. We'll bring the buckets.

Join a Saturday morning cleanup on the coast between Miami and Palm Beach. The bottle caps you pick up become a recycled bench.

Pick a Saturday A Build-a-Bench event with Plastic Fisherman and A Cleaner Planet.

How a cleanup day works

Your Saturday morning becomes a bench.

Full cleanup bags and stacks of buckets on the grass
01

Show up.

Find the crew at the meeting point. We hand you gloves, bags and a bucket.

A volunteer bags trash in the dunes
02

Clean the shore.

Work a stretch of beach with a sponsor's team and your neighbors. Keep the bottle caps in their own bucket.

A box of collected bottle caps in every color
03

Caps become a bench.

Caps are HDPE plastic. The Plastic Fisherman workshop shreds them into 4 mm flakes and presses them into beams. One bench holds 84 lb of plastic.

From past cleanups. Photos: A Cleaner Planet and Plastic Fisherman.

Upcoming cleanups

Pick a Saturday.

Six mornings, from Miami Beach up to Palm Beach. Sign up for one, then add it to your calendar.

Sample schedule for the campaign launch. Dates and sites to be confirmed by A Cleaner Planet.

Volunteers gather with buckets for a cleanup in a Miami park

What to bring

Bring the basics. We bring the rest.

You bring

  • Water bottle
  • Sun hat
  • Closed shoes
  • Sunscreen

We provide

  • Gloves
  • Bags
  • Buckets

Kids welcome with an adult. Saving bottle caps at home? Bring them along.

Bringing your company? Sponsor a Build-a-Bench.

Your team can run a 30-day cap drive, join a cleanup and get a bench with your name on it.

Sponsor a Build-a-Bench

Save your spot.

You're in. See you on the sand.

Bring a water bottle, a sun hat, closed shoes and sunscreen. We'll have gloves, bags and buckets.

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