Akamas peninsula, Cyprus · operating since 2019
Professional coastal care for one of the Mediterranean's last unspoiled coastlines
Mechanical sieving where the sand allows it, hand crews where nesting and dune systems say it should not, and local people trained to do both properly.
Clean, safe,
recorded.
- 11beaches
- Under contract this season
- 38km
- Shoreline maintained
- 05:30
- First crew on sand
Fields of application
Four services, one operating standard
Every contract is written per beach: which sectors take machinery, which are hand-only, how often we return and what gets recorded. Nothing is bundled that you do not need.
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Beach cleaning
Mechanical sieving on open sand, tine raking on compacted sectors and hand clearance wherever machinery is excluded. Screened to 20 mm, worked to a depth set for the sand you have.
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S-02
Shoreline waste management
Collection, on-site separation, weighing and licensed disposal of marine litter, fishing gear and storm debris — with a material-by-material record you can put in a report.
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S-03
Guest area upkeep
Sunbed lines, walkways, shade structures, showers and bins kept presentable from the morning set-up to the evening reset, on rolling patrols through opening hours.
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S-04
Seasonal crews
Trained, insured operatives placed with hotels, beach clubs and municipalities for a week, a month or a full season — supervised by our own crew leaders, not left at your gate.
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How we clean
A method set by the beach, not by the machine
Mechanical beach cleaning done badly removes more than it collects — organic matter, seed material, the top of a nest. Our method starts with a survey and treats the machine as one option among three.
Survey the sector
Before the season and after every storm we walk the beach: sand type, moisture, compaction, debris mix, dune edge, nest markers. That survey decides the method, not the other way round.
Set the machine
Sieving depth is set between 30 and 150 mm and screen size to 20 mm. Shallow and slow on dry fine sand, deeper on coarse; the aim is to lift debris without stripping the organic material the beach needs.
Work the pass
The towed cleaner runs parallel to the water line in overlapping passes at walking speed. Compacted or shell-heavy sectors get the tine rake instead, which pulls debris up without sieving.
Hand-finish the edges
Dune bases, rock pockets, vegetation lines and nesting zones are cleared by hand only. Machinery never enters an exclusion zone, and no exception is made for a late-running schedule.
Separate, weigh, record
The hopper is emptied at the depot, material is separated into plastics, glass, metal, fishing gear and mixed waste, weighed, and logged against the beach it came from.
Equipment in service
| Unit | Width | Depth |
|---|---|---|
| Tractor-towed sieving cleaner20 mm screen · 1.5 m³ hopper | 2.0 m | 30–150 mm |
| Quad-towed rake unitTine action · soft, narrow and low-load beaches | 1.3 m | Surface |
| Hand clearance kitGrabbers, sieve frames, sack frames, sharps tubes | — | Surface |
| Support vehicles4×4 tipper and a caged trailer for bulky marine debris | — | — |
Protecting the peninsula
What we take off the beach, and what we deliberately leave
Akamas is the least developed coastline in Cyprus and it stays that way partly because of how it is maintained. These are our own operating figures, recorded per beach and reported to clients each quarter.
412tonnes
Removed from Akamas beaches across seven seasons
- 38km
- Shoreline under maintenance
- 7seasons
- Operated on the peninsula
- 64%
- Collected material sorted for recycling
Collected material, 2025 season
Share of the 61 tonnes removed across the eleven beaches we maintained last season, measured at the depot after separation.
- Hard and soft plastics47%
- Fishing gear, rope and net21%
- Glass, metal and ceramics14%
- Timber and storm debris11%
- Mixed and unsortable7%
Roughly two thirds of what we lift arrives by sea rather than from beach users. That is why we clean after weather, not only after weekends — a single autumn storm can put more on Lara Bay than a fortnight of August visitors.
Nesting protocol
From 1 May to 30 September, machinery is excluded from marked nesting beaches. Those sectors are hand-cleared only, at first light, walking above the marked line.
Dune protection
We hold a fixed machine line seaward of the dune toe. Vegetated dune, backshore and wrack-rich strandline stay untouched — they hold the beach together.
Wrack judgement
Seagrass banquettes are habitat and natural storm defence, not litter. We remove debris from within them rather than stripping them off the beach wholesale.
Guest areas maintained under contract, Coral Bay strip.
Who we work with
Contracts written for the beach in front of you
A 400-metre hotel frontage and a two-kilometre public bay are not the same job. We price by sector, frequency and method — and we will say when a beach does not need what you were about to buy.
Hotels & resorts
Daily · full seasonCoral Bay strip properties and smaller peninsula hotels: dawn beach clean before breakfast service, guest area attendants through the day, evening reset after last orders.
Beach clubs & restaurants
3–5× weeklyIndependent operators at Lara Bay, Toxeftra and Agios Georgios: three to five cleans a week, bin infrastructure, storm response and end-of-season deep clearance.
Municipalities
Scheduled + call-outPublic beach contracts for Neo Chorio and Polis: scheduled cleaning of open shoreline, waste records for reporting, and a call-out rate for post-storm work.
Tour & watersport operators
Pre-season + weeklyLanding points, launch areas and picnic sites kept clear and safe, with a hazard sweep for glass, hooks and rope before the first boat of the day.
Season & coverage
We work the coast all twelve months
The tourism season runs April to October, but the coastline does not stop producing work in winter — that is when the heaviest marine debris arrives and when the equipment gets rebuilt.
Feb – Mar
Mobilisation
Machinery overhaul, crew recruitment and induction, winter storm debris cleared, exclusion mapping reviewed with conservation contacts.
Apr – May
Season opening
Contracted beaches brought to standard before the first arrivals. Nesting exclusion zones go live on 1 May and machinery routes are re-cut around them.
Jun – Aug
Peak operation
Dawn cleans seven days a week, guest area attendants on site through opening hours, twice-daily bin rounds on the busiest frontages.
Sep – Oct
Late season
Frequency steps down with occupancy. Hatching monitoring continues to end of September; storm call-outs increase from mid-October.
Nov – Jan
Winter works
Storm response, bulk marine debris clearance, dune fencing and boardwalk repair, annual reporting and equipment rebuild at the Polis depot.
Coverage
- Neo Chorio & Latchi
- Polis Chrysochous
- Lara Bay & Toxeftra
- Blue Lagoon (Akamas)
- Coral Bay & Agios Georgios
- Peyia shoreline
Depot and workshop at Polis, roughly 35 minutes from the tip of the peninsula. Crews are dispatched from there each morning; a forward store at Neo Chorio holds hand kit and bagged waste between collections.
Opportunities
We hire on the peninsula, and we train here too
Almost everyone on our crews lives within half an hour of the beaches they work. We train operatives on machinery, waste handling and nesting protocol, and we promote crew leaders from inside — most of ours started with a grabber and a sack frame.
Get in touch
Tell us which beach, and how often
Send us the frontage length, the sand type if you know it and how many days a week you need us. We will walk the sector, propose a method per zone and quote against it — usually within three working days.
- operations@liniaiapa.eu
- Operations desk: 06:00–19:00, seven days, 1 April – 31 October
- Depot 4, Leoforos Arsinois, Polis Chrysochous, Paphos 8830, Cyprus