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Programs

From testing our coastal waters to ensuring that runoff stays in your garden to reducing plastic pollution, Surfrider's programs help ensure that our marine ecosystems are protected.

Beach Cleanups

A Surfrider Foundation program to tackle the Great Lakes litter issue – primarily caused by plastic pollution - through education for action, community science, and campaigns. We are all part of the solution and together we can restore our coastlines, one beach at a time.

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Great Lakes Friendly Restaurants

The Surfrider Foundation’s Great Lakes Friendly Restaurants program tackles plastic pollution at its source. One restaurant, one customer at a time, it increases awareness, drives behavior change, and ultimately creates scalable impact to reduce our plastic footprint.

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Great Lakes Friendly Gardens

The Great Lakes Friendly Gardens program sees landscapes and streets as solutions to water pollution and more.

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Rise Above Plastics

Rise Above Plastics is designed to eliminate the impacts of plastics in the marine environment by raising awareness about the dangers of plastic pollution and by advocating for a reduction of single-use plastics and the recycling of all plastics.

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Climate Action Program

Designed to harness the power of nature to fight the effects of climate change on our coasts — this innovative program connects volunteers to restoration projects that help protect local shorelines from erosion, sequester carbon, remove invasive species, and support local ecosystems.

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