Lotto winners clean up again (for a good cause)
A TEAM of multi-millionaire National Lottery winners have united to clear plastic from a beach.
The nine winners turned out yesterday morning to work with environmental charity The 2 Minute Foundation.
Deborah Mather, 63, from Chorley in Lancashire, who won £5.1million in 2005, said: “I’ve learnt an awful lot today about plastic and about what it can do, not just to the animals but to ourselves as well.
“There are some things that have been left on the beach that you wouldn’t dream of.”
She said she had been “quite shocked” to see the amount of plastic debris that had washed up on New Brighton beach in Wirral, Merseyside.
Ben Woods, 40, from
Wirral, who scooped just less than £2.5million in 2004, said he found felt-tip pen lids and bottle tops.
He said: “It is something close to my heart as a father, to ensure our beaches are kept clean so everyone can enjoy them to their full potential.
“And it seems more appropriate than ever right now to be doing something like this in the year of the great British staycation.”
Claire Giner, campaigns manager for The 2 Minute Foundation, said: “People in the UK are now seeing it with their own eyes.
“The climate is changing so rapidly because we’re so reliant on plastics and plastic production.
“In order to combat one we have to combat both.”