A group of volunteers are setting sail from Hobart to clean up remote beaches in Tasmania's World Heritage Area, despite forecasts of heavy weather.

The team will travel to Tasmania's west coast which is one of the most remote coastlines in the world.

Some of the beaches are so remote that there is often no road access to the coastline.

But the remoteness does not protect the coastline from rubbish like plastic bottles and discarded fishing gear.

Matt Dell from Tasmanian Environmental Consultants will lead the crew of 30 who are travelling to the clean-up site in crayfishing and abalone boats.

"Having travelled round the world, it's one of the most remote and inaccessible coastlines I've ever seen," Mr Dell said.

"We go round on commercial fishing boats and we use the skills of local crayfisherman and abalone divers to drop us on the beach in zodiacs (inflatable dinghies) and we spent six to eight hours a day picking up rubbish and then [head] back to the boats and count it all."

This is the fifteenth year that volunteers are sailing to the west coast of Tasmania to clean up the island's most remote beaches.

It is the fourth year in a row that Andrew Harbinson has volunteered to go and pick up rubbish in the place he calls the Wild West.

"It's very wild and rugged, lots of mountains and rivers and a variety of different sorts of bush and scrub down there," he said.

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Volunteers brave wild weather to clean up remote beaches in Tasmania's World Heritage Area