EcoWorld Watamu

EcoWorld Watamu Empowering communities especially women and youth through the development and growth of the plastic circular economy along the Kenyan Coast.

🚨 WATAMU, WE’RE GOING BIG THIS YEAR! 🌊💚International Coastal Cleanup 2026 is coming and this year, we’re making it BIGGE...
28/08/2026

🚨 WATAMU, WE’RE GOING BIG THIS YEAR! 🌊💚

International Coastal Cleanup 2026 is coming and this year, we’re making it BIGGER. BETTER. MORE COLLABORATIVE.

For the 41st edition, we’re taking on:

🌊 11 Beaches
🐢 1 Marine Protected Area
♻️ 1 BIG goal: ZERO TRASH

Our theme:

11 BEACHES. ONE MARINE PROTECTED AREA. ZERO TRASH.

We’re inviting everyone to be part of it — families, schools, hotels, businesses, government, NGOs, community groups, conservation organizations and individual volunteers.

You can get involved by:

💚 Adopting a beach site
🙌 Joining a cleanup team
🧤 Providing tools and supplies
💰 Supporting financially
🤝 Offering in-kind or technical support

📅 19th September 2026
📍 Watamu Marine Area
⏰ 7 AM – 2 PM

This isn't just about picking up trash.

It’s about taking responsibility for the places we call home.

Who’s joining us? 👀🌊

Tag someone, an organization or a team that should be part of !

We often think of waste as something that disappears once it leaves our homes.But it doesn’t disappear. It goes somewher...
27/08/2026

We often think of waste as something that disappears once it leaves our homes.

But it doesn’t disappear. It goes somewhere and its consequences are often felt by our communities, our environment, and future generations.

A circular economy asks us to think differently: reduce what we consume, reuse what we can, repair what is broken, and recover materials instead of throwing them away.

Because responsible waste management is not only about keeping our surroundings clean. It is about protecting livelihoods, health, and the future we leave behind. ♻️🌍

FOR SALE | CLARK L30D DIESEL FORKLIFTWe're offering our well-maintained CLARK L300 forklift for sale. Reliable, powerful...
06/08/2026

FOR SALE | CLARK L30D DIESEL FORKLIFT

We're offering our well-maintained CLARK L300 forklift for sale. Reliable, powerful, and ideal for recycling facilities, warehouses, logistics, and industrial operations.

📍 Load Capacity: 3,000 kg
📍 Max Lift Height: 4.8 m
💰 Price: KES 2,300,000

Available for viewing in Watamu.

📞 +254 (0) 795 943 545
📧 [email protected]

We measured success in kilograms. The ocean measured it in a conversation.When we planned our World Sea Turtle Day clean...
03/08/2026

We measured success in kilograms. The ocean measured it in a conversation.

When we planned our World Sea Turtle Day cleanup at Darakasi Beach, we thought success would be measured by how much waste we collected.

By the end of the morning, 115 volunteers had removed 503 kilograms of marine litter.

But that's not the story we keep talking about.

Before the cleanup even began, our coordinators Karen Njue and Joy Omulama were documenting the beach when a group of fishermen approached.

"What are you doing?"

"We're waiting for volunteers to clean the beach."

"Are they being paid?"

"No."

"Then why?"

They explained that plastic doesn't disappear when it reaches the ocean. It breaks into smaller and smaller pieces that are eaten by fish, turtles and other marine animals, eventually making their way back into the food chain.

The fishermen listened.

Then one responded with complete sincerity.

"That is a lie."

"We throw things into the ocean all the time."

"We've never seen any of that happen."

For a moment, nobody argued.

Because the response wasn't rooted in indifference.

It was rooted in experience.

If you've spent your entire life on the ocean and never personally witnessed a turtle trapped in plastic...

Never seen microplastics...

Never watched coral slowly decline...

The crisis remains invisible.

That conversation reminded us that solving marine pollution isn't only about removing waste.

It's about making invisible problems visible.

Education isn't about telling people they're wrong.

It's about helping them see what they've never had the chance to see.

The 503 kilograms we removed from Darakasi Beach mattered.

But if one conversation helps prevent thousands more kilograms from entering the ocean in the future, its impact could be even greater.

So we'd like to ask you:

What environmental issue only became real to you after someone helped you see it differently?

Let's continue the conversation.

What if the solution to the global plastic crisis was already happening in communities like Mida Creek?While world leade...
30/07/2026

What if the solution to the global plastic crisis was already happening in communities like Mida Creek?

While world leaders continue negotiating the Global Plastics Treaty, women along Kenya's coast aren't waiting for signatures. They're already proving what real solutions look like.

Women like Imelda from Mida Creek are already grinding.

What was once discarded plastic washing into the mangroves has become an opportunity to build stronger families and stronger communities. Through EcoWorld Watamu buyback program, Imelda and other women have organized a system of collecting and selling recyclable plastics that does much more than generate income.

The money earned helps support their table banking initiatives, strengthens community initiatives like DERA Resell, and creates an additional source of income for households.

Every kilogram collected is one less kilogram polluting the creek that supports fisheries, tourism, biodiversity, and livelihoods.

This is why the Global Plastics Treaty matters.

The treaty aims to tackle plastic pollution across its entire lifecycle, from production to waste management. But global agreements only succeed when local communities have the tools and opportunities to become part of the solution.

That's exactly what we're seeing in Mida Creek.

Cleaner waterways.
More resilient women.
Stronger community organizations.
A circular economy that works for both people and nature.

The world's plastic problem may be global, but its solutions begin with people taking action in their own communities.

💚 What local action do you think could make the biggest difference in reducing plastic pollution?

Share your thoughts below.

17/07/2026

Beach cleanups do more than clean the ocean and beaches

It also brings together the people under one mission

Reach out to support or join us anytime

Call/WhatsApp: +254 (0) 795.943.545
Email: [email protected]

Policies may begin in conference rooms, but ocean protection truly begins on the ground. In the communities cleaning bea...
17/06/2026

Policies may begin in conference rooms, but ocean protection truly begins on the ground. In the communities cleaning beaches at sunrise. In the waste workers recovering plastic before it reaches the sea. In the organizations building solutions one coastline at a time.

Tomorrow at the Our Ocean Conference 2026, EcoWorld Recycling will participate in the side event *“Towards UNOC-4: Strengthening Regional Action on Marine Plastic Pollution through the Regional Seas Programme in the Western Indian Ocean and East Asian Seas Regions.”*

The discussion brings together regional bodies, researchers, policymakers, and implementation partners working to turn global commitments on marine pollution into practical action that communities can actually see and feel.

As an organization implementing marine litter interventions around the Watamu Marine National Park and across the Kenyan coast, we are proud to represent the voices of implementers in the marine pollution sector. The people working daily to reduce plastic leakage into the ocean through cleanups, waste recovery, recycling, circular economy innovation, and community engagement.

Because protecting the ocean is not only about policies and pledges. It is also about the systems, partnerships, and local action needed to make those commitments real.

We invite you to follow the conversation as we share lessons, challenges, and solutions from the frontlines of marine pollution intervention and coastal conservation.

The ocean remembers everything we leave behind.A plastic bottle tossed far inland.A fishing net abandoned at sea.A food ...
16/06/2026

The ocean remembers everything we leave behind.

A plastic bottle tossed far inland.
A fishing net abandoned at sea.
A food wrapper carried by rain into rivers.
What disappears from our sight never truly disappears from the ocean.

Along the Kenyan coast, from mangroves to coral reefs, marine pollution continues to shape the reality of coastal life. At EcoWorld Recycling, this is not something we read about from afar. It is what we encounter every day during cleanups, waste recovery operations, and circular economy interventions around the Watamu Marine National Park and neighbouring communities.

Over time, plastics break into smaller and smaller pieces. Microplastics drift through the ocean unseen, entering marine food systems and settling into fragile ecosystems like seagrass beds and coral reefs. Larger debris continues to wash ashore with the tides. Bottles tangled in mangroves. Fishing gear trapped on reefs. Packaging waste scattered across protected coastlines after every monsoon season.

Yet in the middle of this crisis, communities continue to rise for the ocean.

Waste pickers recovering recyclables before they reach the sea.
Young people leading beach cleanups.
Communities separating waste.
Recyclers transforming discarded materials into value again.

This is what circular economy looks like on the ground.
Not just waste management, but hope in action.

At , we stand for stronger global action against plastic pollution and solutions that recognise the power of community-led ocean protection.

Because every piece of plastic stopped before reaching the sea is one less burden the ocean has to carry. 🌊

The thing about sea turtles is this.No matter how far they travel, no matter how vast the ocean becomes, they always fin...
16/06/2026

The thing about sea turtles is this.
No matter how far they travel, no matter how vast the ocean becomes, they always find their way back home. 🌊🐢

Across currents, storms, and endless blue water, they return to the same shores where life first began. The beach remembers them. And somehow, they remember it too.

Humans carry that feeling as well.

No matter how far we go, there is always a quiet pull toward home. Toward the places that raised us. The places tied to our memories, our stories, our sense of belonging.

For sea turtles, these beaches are home.
For many coastal communities, they are home too.

But every tide now brings back plastic, abandoned waste, and pollution that threatens marine life and the future of our oceans.

This World Sea Turtle Day, we invite you to return to the shore with purpose.

Join us for a community beach cleanup at Darakasi Beach in the Watamu Marine Protected Area as we protect the coastline that generations of sea turtles depend on for survival. 💙

📍 Darakasi Beach, Watamu Marine Protected Area
📅 19th June 2026
⏰ 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM

Come for the ocean.
Come for the turtles.
Come because home deserves care.

There is a silence beneath the ocean when corals begin to fade.Not the silence of peace, but the silence of life struggl...
15/06/2026

There is a silence beneath the ocean when corals begin to fade.
Not the silence of peace, but the silence of life struggling to hold on.

The Watamu Marine National Park has long been one of Kenya’s living treasures. A sanctuary for marine life. A source of livelihood for coastal communities. A place where reefs, mangroves, fishers, sea turtles, tourism, and culture exist in delicate balance.

For us at Recycling, Watamu is not just a protected area on a map. It is one of the coastlines where we work, clean, learn, and witness the realities of marine pollution every single day.

Recently, another coral bleaching event swept through already weakened coral gardens. Warmer oceans continue to stress the reefs, but pollution deepens the wound. Plastic waste traps sediment over corals. Fishing debris entangles marine habitats. Waste runoff clouds the water and blocks sunlight needed for reef survival. What begins as a discarded bottle or piece of plastic on land eventually becomes pressure carried by tides into fragile ecosystems.

And yet the ocean keeps trying to heal.

At , we stand with communities, conservationists, and ocean defenders calling for stronger marine protection, restoration of degraded ecosystems, and solutions that stop pollution before it reaches the sea.

Because protecting Watamu is protecting the future of our coast.

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EcoWorld
Watamu
80202

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Monday 09:00 - 16:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 16:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 16:00
Thursday 09:00 - 16:00
Friday 09:00 - 16:00
Saturday 09:00 - 12:00

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