Join Us! every last saturday of the month 9:30-10:30 am
At The Beach Boost we collect trash washing up on the shores of Bonaire National Marine Park. Allthough it’s an endless stream of plastic we take action to create awareness to reduce, re-use & recycle.
KEEP OUR NATURAL SPORTS ARENA CLEAN
Thank you for helping out! We are a community of passionate windsurfers, wingfoilers, kiters and divers. We love to keep our playing field, the OCEAN, clean.
Why?
Minimize Plastic use & Maximize good waste management. Cause Plastic shouldn’t end up in the Ocean & Nature
How?
By Raising Awareness. So let’s Reduce, Re-Use, Recycle
What?
What are we actually doing? A one hour BEACH BOOST clean up
Everything you need to know
Every last Saturday of the month, 9:30–10:30 AM, with free coffee and sodas afterward at the Hangout Bar. Twice a year on Friday afternoon: BeachBoostBooze, 5:00–6:00 PM, with free drinks and music afterward on the beach.
West of the shrimp factory & Sorobon, Bonaire
Follow social media or join our WhatsApp group via +5997003749, +5997003748, or through one of the other members.
how the beach boost cleanup started
In the summer of 2024 we first were confronted with oil ending up on the beach of Bonaire. Killing thousands of animals and destroying wildlife & vegetation.
A ship stranded near Trinidad & Tobago, started spilling/leaking oil. A month after, with springtide, me and my friends were wingfoil surfing on the Ocean near Sorobon / Lac Cay of the shore of Bonaire and got trapped in trash. We hardly could come back to shore. Springtide and changed currents brought in lots of trash from the mainland of South-America.
It became ‘unsailable’ and the beaches covered with trash, piles of plastic bottles, packaging, flip flops, led lights, injection needles, oil jugs, jerrycan’s and even chairs washed up to shore…..
Time for us to start cleaning and raising awareness that this isn’t the way to go forward…
What’s the solution? Reduces & stop using plastics when there is other solutions, make sure plastic’s don’t end up in nature, re-use and recycle.
This part is a huge issue on small islands like Bonaire… Let’s find a solution here!
Together, we keep our beaches clean and protect our environment.
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📸 Credits charles dasher & nancy reuten
Sponsors
This is an initiative of Barry de Jong, Martijn Bos & Marcelien de Koning supported by B-Boosters.com, BOSKA Food Tools and many (wingfoil/kite/wind) Surfing friends that Love Bonaire & our Ocean life!
