What ECO-CLEAN Solutions does

ECO-CLEAN Solutions is a private environmental-services company founded in 2021 in the Lake Tahoe region by JT Chevallier (Chief Strategy Officer) and JB Harris (Chief Executive Officer) in response to litter accumulation from the post-COVID tourism surge. The company operates a fleet of three complementary robotic systems — BEBOT (a remote-controlled, solar and battery-powered beach-cleaning robot that sifts 1–3 inches beneath sand to remove buried litter as small as 1 cm), PixieDrone (an electric, autonomous, Lidar-guided aquatic skimming drone for floating debris and invasive-weed fragments), and Collec'Thor (a stationary waste collector operating 24/7) — all sourced from French partner Searial Cleaners (a Poralu Marine subsidiary) under what is described as an exclusive West Coast deployment relationship. BEBOT is the only TRPA-permitted mechanical beach cleaner in Tahoe, a regulatory status that materially shapes competitive dynamics in the basin.

The company generates revenue through direct B2B service contracts with private beach operators, resort concessionaires, marinas, and federal and state land managers, layered with multi-year grant funding — most notably a $345,000, three-year North Tahoe Community Alliance TOT-TBID Dollars At Work grant covering July 2023–June 2026. Named customers include Tahoe Beach Club, Zephyr Cove Resort (Aramark Destinations), Camp Richardson Resort, Meeks Bay Resort (Washoe Tribe), Tahoe Keys Marina, California State Parks (Kings Beach), the US Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Keep Tahoe Blue (League to Save Lake Tahoe), and the Desert Research Institute. As of the most recent disclosed operating season, the 12-person team had completed 60+ cleanups across 14+ Lake Tahoe beaches, removing 45,000+ pieces of litter and cleaning 1.5 million+ square feet of shoreline since 2022.

In January 2026 the founders established Little Bird Alliance, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, under which ECO-CLEAN Solutions now operates, restructuring the entity to access public and private environmental grants, accept tax-deductible donations, and provide a more sustainable funding model for an enterprise whose core technology is hardware-driven, capital-intensive, and tightly tied to public-good outcomes like microplastic prevention and invasive-species control.

Name

ECO-CLEAN Solutions

Legal name

ECO-CLEAN Solutions LLC

Website

https://eco-cleansolutions.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ECO-CLEAN Solutions operates a fleet of three robotic cleaning systems — BEBOT, PixieDrone, and Collec'Thor, sourced from French partner Searial Cleaners — to deliver low-emission shoreline and waterway cleaning services to resort operators, government land managers, marinas, and private beach clubs in the Lake Tahoe region, supported by grant funding.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Cleaning Services

NAICS

Remediation and Other Waste Management Services (5629), Remediation Services (562910)

SIC

Sanitary Services (4950)

akta.pro primary industry

Pollution Control & Environmental Remediation (Booming, Skimming, Shoreline Cleanup) (TLAHAIAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Eco-Friendly Disposal, Recycling & Donation Hauling (HSAIAOAJ)

Keywords

• Beach cleaning services
• Aquatic robotic cleaning
• Shoreline environmental services
• Microplastic removal services
• Invasive weed removal

Headquarters

HQ city

Gardnerville, NV

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Beach Cleaning Services: Direct service contracts with beach operators, resorts, and land managers for robotic beach cleaning services. Revenue generated from deploying BEBOT fleet for cleanup operations.
2. Grant Funding: Multi-year grant funding through North Tahoe Community Alliance TOT-TBID Dollars At Work Program. $345,000 committed over 3 years for BEBOT tourism impact mitigation project on North Shore.
3. Tahoe Blue Beach Program Partnership: Ongoing contracts with partner beaches like Tahoe Beach Club for regular BEBOT cleanings and shoreline stewardship services.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

ECO-CLEAN Solutions provides professional beach and aquatic cleaning services using a fleet of low-impact, emission-free robotic systems including the BEBOT beach-cleaning robot, PixieDrone autonomous aquatic skimmer, and Collec'Thor stationary waste collector. The company directly deploys this fleet at client beaches and waterways to remove buried litter, floating debris, and invasive aquatic weeds, supplementing volunteer cleanups with technology that captures pollution before it degrades water quality.

Product overview

ECO-CLEAN Solutions offers a fleet of three complementary low-impact, emission-free technologies for shoreline and waterway cleaning: BEBOT (beach-cleaning robot), PixieDrone (aquatic skimming drone), and Collec'Thor (stationary waste collector). BEBOT operates on beaches sifting beneath the sand to remove buried litter before it becomes microplastics. PixieDrone navigates waterways collecting floating debris and invasive weed fragments using Lidar-guided autonomous navigation. Collec'Thor provides 24/7 passive debris capture in marina settings. Together, these technologies form an integrated system for protecting lake and coastal environments from plastic pollution and invasive species.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Little Bird Alliance: A nonprofit organization created by the ECO-CLEAN Solutions team to protect places they love and build a more resilient future through small but powerful environmental restoration projects. Registered 501(c)(3) that provides structure for broader environmental grants and community involvement.

Products and services

• BEBOT Beach Cleaning Service Direct deployment of the BEBOT remote-controlled, battery-powered beach-cleaning robot that sifts 1-3 inches beneath sand to remove buried litter as small as 1cm. The service is provided to beach operators, land managers, resort concessionaires, and government agencies managing Lake Tahoe-area beaches, helping remove debris before it becomes microplastics.
• PixieDrone Aquatic Skimming Service Deployment of the PixieDrone autonomous electric aquatic skimmer equipped with Lidar navigation for real-time obstacle avoidance and course adjustment. The service captures floating debris, dock debris, Styrofoam, and invasive weed fragments on water surfaces for marina operators and waterway managers concerned with aquatic invasive species.
• Collec'Thor Stationary Waste Collection Service Deployment of the Collec'Thor stationary waste collector that silently captures floating debris and invasive aquatic weeds across a wide area, operating continuously. The service is provided to marinas and waterway operators for passive, around-the-clock debris removal, piloted at Tahoe Keys Marina.
• Tahoe Blue Beach Program A certified shoreline stewardship program for beaches and resorts providing regular BEBOT robotic cleanings, environmental certification, and combined infrastructure improvements to address shoreline litter accumulation. Offered to beach operators, resort concessionaires, and government-managed recreation areas pursuing certified environmental stewardship.

Quantifiable outcome

• 10x more litter collected compared to volunteer cleanups alone
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core, secondary and minor.

• League to Save Lake Tahoe (Keep Tahoe Blue)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary strategic partner since 2022 for beach cleaning operations, PixieDrone pilot, and Tahoe Blue Beach program. Partnership for data collection, advocacy, and community engagement. Joint development of BEBOT StoryMap for impact visualization.
• Tahoe Keys MarinacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPilot deployment site for PixieDrone and Collec'Thor aquatic cleaning technologies. Marina is nearly entirely infested with aquatic invasive plants. Partnership to test and perfect operations for weed fragment removal.
• Searial Cleaners (Poralu Marine)coreTechnology or IntegrationTechnology provider for BEBOT beach-cleaning robot. Parent company Poralu Marine is global leader in sustainable marina infrastructure. Exclusive relationship for West Coast deployment of Searial Cleaners technology.
• Desert Research Institute (DRI)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partnership for litter data collection and analysis. Graduate students from UNR and TMCC track litter data throughout summer season. Data supports environmental policy advocacy.
• US Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management UnitcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFederal agency managing public lands and beaches in Lake Tahoe Basin. Partner in Tahoe Blue Beach program. Collaborates on beach management and environmental stewardship initiatives.
• Aramark DestinationssecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerConcessionaire managing Zephyr Cove Resort and Shoals. Implemented Tahoe Blue Beach program elements including additional restrooms, trash receptacles, and BEBOT cleanings. Saw 97% reduction in litter post-implementation.
• Tahoe Beach ClubcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFirst private Tahoe Blue Beach certification recipient. Ongoing contract with ECO-CLEAN for BEBOT cleanings. Committed to eliminating single-use plastics and sustainable shoreline stewardship.
• California State ParkssecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerManages Kings Beach State Recreation Area. Tahoe Blue Beach program participant. Grant-funded BEBOT cleanings through NTCA partnership.
• Chile Lagos Limpios (Chile Clean Lakes Foundation)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational collaboration foundation working on conservation of 23 Northern Patagonian lakes. Visited Lake Tahoe to study lake preservation model and view ECO-CLEAN technologies in action.
• Keep New Hanover BeautifulminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNonprofit partner for BEBOT demonstration at Carolina Beach, North Carolina. City officials and nonprofit members participated in demo to explore technology adoption.
• City of Santa Cruz Parks and RecreationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for BEBOT coastal debut at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Demo conducted with city officials and curious onlookers. First coastal beach deployment outside Lake Tahoe.
• Washoe Tribe of Nevada and CaliforniasecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerOperates Meeks Bay Resort. Tahoe Blue Beach program participant. Working with ECO-CLEAN on beach cleanings and invasive species prevention.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Poralu Marine: Poralu Marine is the parent company of Searial Cleaners and a global leader in marina infrastructure, floating docks, and sustainable waterfront solutions. As the parent of ECO-CLEAN's exclusive technology partner, Poralu Marine operates in adjacent waterfront environmental services and provides the industrial backing for the BEBOT/PixieDrone technology ECO-CLEAN deploys.
• The Ocean Cleanup: The Ocean Cleanup is a large-scale, well-funded nonprofit deploying ocean plastic cleanup systems at global scale, including river interception barriers. As a much larger incumbent in the marine debris space with substantial foundation funding, it competes for the same philanthropic dollars and policy attention that ECO-CLEAN's Little Bird Alliance would seek, though at a vastly different scale.

Direct peers

• Searial Cleaners: Searial Cleaners is the French technology developer and manufacturer of the BEBOT, PixieDrone, and Collec'Thor robots that ECO-CLEAN deploys. As ECO-CLEAN's exclusive West Coast partner and the underlying technology provider, Searial Cleaners operates the same product lines globally in Europe and other regions, making it the most directly comparable peer in product and category.
• 4ocean: 4ocean operates a global beach and ocean cleanup operation that removes trash from coastlines, oceans, and rivers, funded through consumer product sales. While their approach is human-powered versus ECO-CLEAN's robotic model, both companies target the same beach cleanup market, similar environmental outcomes, and overlap in serving resort, municipal, and tourism-adjacent customers.
• RanMarine Technology: RanMarine Technology produces the WasteShark, an autonomous aquatic drone that collects floating debris and biomass from waterways. Like ECO-CLEAN's PixieDrone, it targets marina and harbor cleanups, making RanMarine a direct peer in the autonomous aquatic surface cleaning category with similar municipal and marina customers.

Others

• Surfrider Foundation: Surfrider Foundation is a major US nonprofit focused on beach access, water quality, and coastal preservation through volunteer beach cleanups and advocacy. It shares ECO-CLEAN's mission of protecting shorelines and competes for similar foundation grants, but operates through volunteer-driven rather than technology-driven approaches.
• League to Save Lake Tahoe (Keep Tahoe Blue): Keep Tahoe Blue is ECO-CLEAN's primary nonprofit partner and the leading environmental advocacy organization for Lake Tahoe. While not a direct competitor, it is the most thematically aligned peer in the Tahoe environmental ecosystem and a key stakeholder for any Lake Tahoe-based environmental services or restoration initiatives.

Emerging players

• ClearBot: ClearBot builds autonomous electric boats that collect trash from harbors and waterways, with deployments across Asia. It overlaps with ECO-CLEAN's PixieDrone use case in the aquatic debris removal category but operates in different geographies and is at a comparable early-commercial stage.
• Trash Tide: Trash Tide operates autonomous trash-collecting robots deployed in rivers and harbors to intercept floating debris before it reaches the ocean. While more focused on riverine interception than ECO-CLEAN's beach and marina work, it represents an adjacent emerging player in the autonomous environmental robotics category.
• Deep Blue Dynamics: Deep Blue Dynamics developed BeachBot, an autonomous beach-cleaning robot designed to detect and remove small litter from sand. It directly parallels ECO-CLEAN's BEBOT in product category and beach-cleaning functionality, though at a smaller commercial scale and without an established operating region.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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