“Puerto Rico's coastlines belong to its people.”
Reclaim Nature intercepts sargassum and ocean plastic from Puerto Rico's coastal waters before they reach shore, before chemical decomposition, before sand contamination, and before irreversible harm to coral reefs, seagrass beds, and ESA-listed sea turtle habitats. We collect, remove, load, and transport recovered material to qualified processing partners who convert it into commercial products through a zero-landfill pipeline. Beginning with seven planned coastal access points across the eastern and southeastern coastline, our purpose is to grow until every Puerto Rico shoreline has permanent, science-backed interception infrastructure it can count on season after season.
OUR VISIONA Puerto Rico where no coastline is surrendered to sargassum.
A Puerto Rico where no coastline is surrendered to sargassum. Where fishing families keep access to the waters their grandparents worked. Where children grow up on shores that are clean, open, and theirs. Where every ton of sargassum intercepted creates a local job, feeds a processing pipeline, and funds the next season of operations. A self-sustaining system so proven in Puerto Rico that every Caribbean island facing this same crisis has a model to follow and a partner to call.
Reclaim Nature, Inc. is a Puerto Rico nonprofit corporation. Federal 501(c)(3) and Puerto Rico Act 60 applications are currently pending.
Sargassum costs Puerto Rico over $100 million every year.
Estimated annual economic losses across Puerto Rico's 44 coastal municipalities from sargassum impacts on tourism, fisheries, and coastal infrastructure.
Source: Caribbean Journal, January 2026 economic study.
Coastal municipalities across Puerto Rico facing recurring sargassum impacts, from Arecibo and Dorado on the north coast to Humacao and Vieques on the east and south.
Source: DNER Section 309 PRCZMP Report FY26-30.
Spent annually by a single private marina association in Palmas del Mar to remove sargassum. This is the recurring cost Reclaim Nature eliminates permanently.
Source: Periodismo Investigativo, 2021.
Invested by DNER in sargassum removal machinery in 2023 using ARPA and fishery disaster funds. Equipment deployed. Problem persists. Permanent infrastructure is the missing piece.
Source: DNER, American Rescue Plan Act procurement records.
A January 2026 study projects sargassum blooms could cause hundreds of millions in economic losses in Puerto Rico annually. Government agencies, federal grants, and private associations have all invested in reactive cleanup. Reclaim Nature provides what has been missing: permanent, permitted, offshore interception infrastructure that stops the problem before it reaches shore.
Sources: Caribbean Journal 2025, DNER Section 309 PRCZMP FY26-30, Periodismo Investigativo 2021 and 2023, CariCOOS Sargassum Monitoring, EPA Caribbean coastal protection grant records.
Puerto Rico's beaches are among the most beautiful on earth. Warm water, golden sand, ecosystems alive with sea turtles, coral, and marine life that exist nowhere else in quite the same way. For generations this coastline has been the soul of the island. The place where families gather, fishermen work, children grow up, and visitors fall in love with everything Puerto Rico is.
Every year, sargassum threatens to take that away.