Red Stripe employees unite for coastal restoration
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With determination etched on their faces, D&G Foundation volunteers Chester Grant, Andre Dixon, Adrian Anderson and Dennis Beckford, haul a discarded sofa from Kingston Harbour. The effort symbolises the shared responsibility of protecting Jamaica’s environment.
Through the Desnoes & Geddes Foundation’s Care for People & Planet mandate, Red Stripe volunteers joined fellow Jamaicans at Kingston Harbour for International Coastal Cleanup Day 2025.
Gloves, rakes, and bags in hand, they cleared plastics, bottles, tyres, and even abandoned furniture from the shoreline, working together to restore one of our island’s most vital spaces.
Volunteers from the Desnoes & Geddes Foundation gather for a photo after hours of work along the Kingston Harbour shoreline. Behind them, bags filled with plastic bottles, tyres, and debris mark the impact of their efforts, a collective step toward protecting marine life and preserving Jamaica’s natural heritage for generations to come.
By the end of the day, over 2,000 pounds of waste had been removed. The effort helped to reduce pollution and served to draw attention to the need to protect marine life and preserve Jamaica’s coastal heritage.
This cleanup is part of Red Stripe’s wider sustainability journey, standing with communities, caring for the environment, and keeping Jamaica’s natural beauty alive for generations.
D&G Foundation accountant Dennis Beckford uses a rake to pull tangled debris from the water’s edge, helping to protect marine habitats and underscoring Red Stripe’s commitment to safeguarding Jamaica’s coastline.
D&G Foundation volunteer Bruno Cesar Marques Araujo packs non-degradable waste into garbage bags during the International Coastal Cleanup Day 2025 effort at Kingston Harbour.
D&G Foundation volunteers Chester Grant (left), Andre Dixon (centre), and Adrian Anderson (right) work together to haul a waterlogged tyre from Kingston Harbour—showing the determination it takes to restore one of the Caribbean’s most polluted coastlines.
Volunteers hold a garbage bag steady as teammates drop in leaves, branches, and mixed debris during the Kingston Harbour cleanup.
A smile breaks through the hard work as D&G Foundation volunteer, Chester Grant shows off a garbage bag filled with bottles collected during the cleanup.
Carefully sorting through the thick piles of garbage, D&G Foundation Accountant, Dennis Beckford lifts discarded plastic from the mangroves. Each item removed prevents further harm to marine ecosystems that thrive in the harbour.
D&G Foundation administrator Totlyn Brown-Robb uses a rake to collect plastic bottles, Styrofoam, and driftwood from the shallows of Kingston Harbour, pulling the debris to shore before it can wash back out to sea.
D&G Foundation Volunteer, Shawn Daley, proudly raises a bag of recovered items, reflective of the collective efforts for sustainability. Red Stripe employees and partners worked side by side to transform the shoreline.
Andre Dixon, a Desnoes & Geddes Foundation volunteer, ties off a bag filled with plastic bottles collected along Kingston Harbour, one of many that together removed more than 2,000 pounds of waste during the coastal cleanup.
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