The International Coastal Clean-up (ICC) is celebrated every third Saturday of September by virtue of Proclamation No. 470, s. 2003. ICC is part of the global coastal clean-up celebrations. It began more than 30 years ago, when communities and environment activists rallied together with the common goal of cleaning, collecting and documenting the trash littering their coastlines. ICC engages people to remove trash from the world’s beaches and waterways to free our oceans especially of plastics which pollutes the water and marine life.

DENR 6 celebrates International Coastal Clean Up 2021. (2021, September 11 - 12). Daily Guardian, pp., 10, 11.