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Cleanisland.

Trash on the road ends up on the beach. Trash on the beach ends up in the ocean. Trash in the ocean ends up on your plate. So we pick it up, every week, all over Oʻahu.

18cleanups on this page
70+volunteers at White Plains in one morning
100+bags off Paʻakea Rd in two days
3full garbage trucks in one cleanup

Every cleanup,one place.

Kailua to Waiʻanae, beaches, canals, parks and trails. Tap any one to watch it on Instagram.

Waterways &flood prevention.

Clogged streams make floods worse. After the 2026 storms we started clearing them before the next one.

Road. Stream.Reef. Plate.

A wrapper on the side of the road doesn’t stay there. Here’s where it goes, and why picking it up is one of the easiest ways to love this place.

01

The drain is the ocean.

Storm drains on Oʻahu aren’t a sewer. Rain washes whatever’s in the street straight into streams and out to the reef, usually with no treatment at all.

02

Trash makes floods worse.

We saw it in 2026. Clogged streams and canals back water up into homes and farms. Clearing them before the next storm is cheaper than gutting houses after.

03

It hurts what we love.

Nets, rope and plastic hurt Hawaiian monk seals, green and hawksbill sea turtles, whales and dolphins. The same water feeds our fish, our limu and our keiki.

Why itmatters.

Hawaiʻi sits in the middle of the Pacific, and trash from all over the ocean washes up here. What we drop on our own roads makes it worse.

670+ miof storm drains on Oʻahu. What goes in flows to streams and the ocean, usually untreated.City & County of Honolulu, Storm Water Quality
57 tonsof marine debris pile up on the reefs of Papahānaumokuākea every yearPapahānaumokuākea Marine Debris Project, via Maui Now, 2022
268+ tonspulled off one stretch of Kaʻū coastline at Kamilo since 2003Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund, via University of Hawaiʻi
2028the year Oʻahu’s only landfill for household trash, Waimānalo Gulch, is set to closeHawaiʻi Public Radio, Sept 2026

Every Tuesdayis Trash Tuesday.

You don’t need us there. You don’t need a banner or a sign-up. Just a bag and ten minutes, wherever you already are.

1Grab a bag. Gloves if you’ve got them.
2Give it ten minutes. Your street, your beach, your bus stop, your job site.
3Post it. Tag @insideoutreach.hawaii and #TrashTuesday so somebody else gets the reminder.

Keep it outof the ocean.

Cleanups cost almost nothing but time. Help us raise money so we can keep cleaning up, and keep helping more people across the islands.

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