For the last 15 years in Canada, Surfrider Foundation Canada has made significant strides to create cleaner waterways, address the sources of plastic pollution, restore local and remote shorelines from litter and marine debris, as well as support the shift to a circular economy for all plastic materials and products. This has and continues to be achieved through enacting our theory of change: by growing environmental capacity on the ground in communities by training and investing in a collective of individuals, we create the political will necessary to increase support for pollution prevention, coastal protection, and environmental awareness.