All our long term volunteers and permanent crew have to do the ITSB Beach Cleaning School before going to their beach cleaning missions.
The school is also available for other organizations or persons that want to do beach cleaning in a professional manner.

The schedule of the ITSB school is based on the following content and topics:
- Safety at sea
- Safety at sea basics
- Alarm instruction, roles, and tasks
- Safety equipment walkthrough/testing
- CPR and life saving first aid
- Using communications (radios, VHF, phone)
- The most important laws and regulations at sea
- Man Over Board exercise
- Safety at the beach/fieldwork
- Risk analysis and management
- How to prevent personnel injuries
- How to prevent damage to animals, birds, and fauna
- How to prevent damage to 3rd party property
- First aid techniques
- Safety equipment (spike-proof boots, gloves, first aid kits++)
- Beach cleaning methodology
- Basic methodology, efficient beach cleaning
- Tools (knives, bags, gloves, cranes, ++)
- Carrying techniques in terrain
- Sorting the findings for recycling
- Loading and unloading boats
- Registration for research and tracking
- Waste treatment
- Risk waste/danger objects
- The standard analysis of findings
- Intro to deep analysis of findings
- Elementary knowledge about plastics and their value chains
- The history of plastics
- How is it made
- Different types of plastics
- How we use plastics today
- Recycling – challenges and opportunities
- Plastic pollution in a political perspective
- The basics about marine life and how we affect it
- The marine food chain
- The oceans and global warming
- Vertical and horizontal accumulation of poisons in the food chain
- How plastics affect fish, birds, and other life in the ocean
- Other types of marine pollution
- Overfishing and other threats to marine life
- Biodiversity at the beach (Seminar with Lei en Biolog)
- Movies we watch
- A Plastic Ocean (Netflix)
- Mission Blue (Netflix)
- Our Planet ep. 1, 6 & 7 (Netflix)
- How to change the world (Netflix)
- An Octopus Teacher (Netflix)


