Past Work

Plastic Free Seas In Action

Since 2013 PFS has worked with over 295 schools, delivering hundreds of talks, workshops and educational activities to more than 100,000 students in schools, on the beach and out at sea.

During Covid-19, PFS reached students both face-to-face and via virtual platforms such as Zoom.

Click here to see the list of schools and companies we have worked with.

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Past Programmes

PFS Youth Conference

2013

The Plastic Free Seas Youth Conference 2013 was all about solutions to plastic pollution problems. It’s about empowering you, your school & your community to adopt changes & make BIG impacts. What you do counts!

Coastal Watch

2014-16

Coastal Watch’s aim was to clean up Hong Kong’s coastlines and trace the sources of marine litter by performing litter and ecological surveys, ultimately helping the government formulate effective long-term solutions to our persistent marine litter problem.

PFS Sea Classroom

2014-2017

The Little Blue Trawler, a 15.6m converted ex-fishing trawler housed the PFS Sea Classroom. Through experiential, hands-on learning, over 2000 students were immersed in the topic of plastic marine pollution using elements of science, marine biology, geography, English, mathematics, current affairs and sustainability as well as through remote area beach cleanup activities.

Past Fundraisers

Lantau Island Swim

2014

A record-breaking 75km swim around Lantau Island by Olivier Baillet & Bruce Pye took 5 days, and the swimmers battled rough seas, coral and debris. Amazingly they got to swim alongside Chinese white dolphins!

Paddle Round Lantau Island

2016

Katherine Lynch, Katerina Vichou and Shu Pu are three outrigger paddlers from Hong Kong Outrigger Canoe Club and Pure Ocean Connection who paddled 70km in double and solo outrigger canoes around Lantau Island.

Lantau Island Paddle

2018

Discovery Bay teachers Jonny Haines and Tim Tait took on the challenge to SUP around Lantau Island over 5 consecutive days. Raising money and highlighting the issue of plastic pollution.

#ArtVplastic Project

2017

Sometimes it takes something beautiful to beat something ugly. That's why two of Hong Kong's celebrated artists Martin Lever and William Furniss, have created a collection of stunning artwork celebrating Hong Kong's precious coastline.

Focus on Our Seas Fundraiser

2016

Plastic Free Seas held its first fundraiser. The theme was 'Art' and we joined forces with multiple artists to create artwork from much of our found beach treasures.

Past Newsletters

If you have missed a newsletter or want to read about our past news, events, tips and much more, than have a browse through the gallery. Make sure you subscribe to our mailing list to receive future newsletters and stay up to date with how you can be involved.

Past Blog Posts

The Plastic Free Seas blog started before Plastic Free Seas existed! Travel back to where it all started on the Journey to the Plastic Ocean. Read about the fundraising before the Journey, what happened in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and what has happened since!