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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.

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Beach Access

Do you have a beach access issue to report on Maui?  

Please use our access reporting form to help us get all the information we need to look into the issue; please email photos of the access issue you’re reporting to chair@maui.surfrider.org

Beach Cleanups

A Surfrider Foundation program to tackle the ocean 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.

Volunteers helping clean up trash at a Maui Surfrider beach cleanup
Blue Water task force member testing ocean water in Maui

Blue Water Task Force

The Blue Water Task Force (BWTF), is the Surfrider Foundations volunteer-run, water testing, education and advocacy program. Our chapters use this program to alert the public and officials in their communities about water quality problems and to work toward solutions.

Ocean Friendly Gardens

OFG standards use a nature-based approach everywhere possible: contouring landscapes for rainwater retention; creating living soil to sponge up water, filtering pollution, sequestering carbon; and planting native & culturally significant plants to create wildlife habitat and a sense of place.

We also have a section on Post-Fire Landscaping: bioremediation & fire resilience.

OFG up close with name stake

Ocean Friendly Restaurants

The Surfrider Foundation’s Ocean 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.

Woman enjoying a lunch on the beach using reusable food containers
Woman collecting plastic straws on a Maui beach

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.

Student Club Network

Our Student Club Network creates a platform to meet the demand by young people for opportunities to influence environmental action through service, leadership development, civic engagement and direct action organizing. This network focuses on the development and implementation of environmental stewardship projects – at schools, campuses and in local communities.

Student Club helping protect a Maui beach