Trash Pickup

We Exist To Clean The Sea

Your Partner In Clean

Our goal in starting SeaBar was to turn a major source of plastic (1.8 Billion Bolles A Year!) Into part of the solution to ocean plastic.

Together We've Cleaned

Before image of an intertidal zone along a sea wall completely covered in trash with two men beginning to clean up the trash. The numbers 32,147 pounds is written on the screen.

An after image of an intertidal zone with significantly less trash and many green bags full of garbage with men working to fill them. Again the 32,147 pounds is written on the screen.

How It Started:

It started as a "Pandemic Project" with a goal of picking up 1,000 pounds of ocean trash from the beaches near our homes...

We got obsessed, and realizing that 1,000 pounds wasn't really going to make a difference, we started thinking bigger. Thanks to a family friend in the Philippines we were able to organize and hire a team in Manila to pick up trash, as well. That inspired us to try to grow our cleanup efforts. We originally named it Pavati - which means Clean Water in Hopi, but we have since focused on SeaBar.

How It Works

We use funds from SeaBar to tackle ocean pollution in two way.

1) We organize volunteer pickups in our local area (Bellingham WA)

2) We work with paid crews in the Philippines. Organized thanks to a random connection only possible thanks to social media and Greg's sister.

As SeaBar grows our goal is to have a full time team working to clean the sea!