South Carolina Adopt-A-Beach Program
The Adopt-A-Beach Program is part of SCDES’s Marine Debris Initiativeand is a great volunteer opportunity for individuals and groups interested in keeping South Carolina beaches clean and healthy. Adopt-A-Beach partners participate in beach cleanups, remove debris from our beaches and coastal waterways, and provide marine debris data to SCDES.
You Can Participate
You can participate in the Adopt-A-Beach program as part of a group or as an individual.
To participate in recurring cleanups as part of a group:
- Register for a MyCoast account
- Log in to MyCoast and create a beach cleanup group
- Adopt a beach of your choosing
- Download the MyCoast app on any smartphones which will be taken to the beach (available for iOS and Android devices)
- Pick a day that is convenient for your group to clean your beach
- On cleanup day, just open the app and begin recording. Don’t worry if not everyone has a phone – more than one participant can record data on a single device
If you are visiting the South Carolina coast and would like to participate in a one-time cleanup, you just need to install the app, create an account giving your home state as SC and open it on the beach. Even if you’re just picking up a couple of things, it helps us to have that data for analysis. Thank you in advance!
