On Saturday, September 19, Mayekoo will bring hundreds of volunteers together at Ananse Beach in Nungua, Accra, ahead of World Cleanup Day.
More than 500 people are expected.
For one morning, volunteers, community groups, schools, companies, Mayekoo crews, and mechanized equipment will share one stretch of coastline and one goal:
remove as much coastal waste as we can — and draw attention to why it keeps returning.
But the real story of World Cleanup Day is not one day.
It is what happens before it and what continues afterward.
Ananse Beach is already an active restoration site
Earlier in 2026, Mayekoo carried out a major three-day intervention at Ananse Beach located in Nungua, Accra.
That initial operation:
- removed 342 metric tonnes of waste
- restored approximately 900 meters of shoreline
- mobilized 121 volunteers
Then the work continued.
In July, another 40.2 metric tonnes were removed.
In August, another 12.18 metric tonnes came off the shoreline with more than 40 volunteers participating.
This is why Mayekoo describes World Cleanup Day as one moment within ongoing restoration rather than a standalone cleanup. The live campaign similarly frames Ananse as an active site that requires regular mechanized cleanup, waste haul-off, community participation, and return interventions.
Why does the waste keep coming back?
Coastal pollution is not created by the beach alone.
Plastic, textiles, and other debris can move through a connected system of streets, drains, runoff, waterways, shorelines, tides, and the ocean.
Waste can arrive from land.
It can wash ashore.
And material left on the coastline can be carried back into the water.
That is why cleanup matters — but cleanup alone is not enough.
Mayekoo’s coastal model increasingly combines:
- mechanized removal
- coordinated waste haul-off
- volunteer participation
- repeat cleanup
- local partnerships
- community stewardship
- practical efforts to reduce repeat pollution
The broader coastal program on Mayekoo’s site reflects that same systems approach.
So why does one big day matter?
Because visibility matters too.
Last year, more than 500 volunteers joined Mayekoo and its partners at Laboma Beach in Accra for World Cleanup Day 2025.
Together, they helped remove more than 16 metric tonnes of waste in one day.
A turnout like that makes the issue difficult to ignore.
Hundreds of people working together on one coastline say something larger than the tonnage alone:
Polluted beaches should not become normal.
Ocean pollution is not someone else’s problem.
And protecting shared public spaces cannot fall to one nonprofit, one municipal authority, one company, or one community group.
It takes all of them.
The machinery matters too
Volunteer energy is powerful.
But heavily polluted coastlines can contain volumes of accumulated and compacted waste that cannot reasonably be cleared by hand alone.
That is why Mayekoo combines people with machinery.
For World Cleanup Day, our Barber HD-600 Beach Rake and tractor will work alongside volunteers, while collected material is coordinated for haul-off from the shoreline.
The goal is not to replace community participation.
It is to make that participation part of an operation capable of working at a more meaningful scale.
From Ghana to an Africa-wide model
Mayekoo’s current coastal proof is concentrated in Ghana.
The ambition is larger.
We are working to refine a restoration model that can be adapted with trusted local partners across African coastal communities:
mechanized cleanup + coordinated haul-off + community action + repeated intervention + public proof
That does not mean every coastline receives the same solution.
It means the underlying principles can travel.
Join us
Ananse Beach, Nungua, Accra, Ghana
Saturday, September 19, 2026
7:00 AM
Come to the beach.
Bring your organization.
Or help fund the equipment, volunteer supplies, haul-off, and return cleanups that make the work possible.