Give our beaches some TLC and help keep coast clean
You can join the Waves of Waste project run by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Let’s show how much we have missed our beaches by giving them a little love when we return this year – with a clean.
Thanks to David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II TV series, awareness of the horrors of plastic polluting our seas has never been higher, and many people are keen to do their bit to help tackle the problem and protect marine wildlife.
We can all play our part by looking after the places that we visit and cleaning up after ourselves, but there are also countryside and beach litter picking initiatives that need the help of volunteers.
The Scarborough News has an ongoing campaign, Keep Our Coast Clean, to encourage people to dispose of their litter properly, and not to pollute the beaches or sea.
A beach clean project is being run by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust across beaches along the Yorkshire coast this year called Waves of Waste.
With the help of volunteers, during each beach clean co-ordinators record litter collected, feed it into a national database collected by the Marine Conservation Society and locally analyse the information to determine trends occurring.
The following Waves of Waste beach cleans are the next locally that are scheduled to take place – but may be cancelled or postponed because of Covid restrictions. Please follow Covid government guidelines and check Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s website in advance to find out if the events will be going ahead:
Filey South, Saturday April 17, 12pm - 2pm
Scarborough South, Saturday April 24, 10am - 12pm
Scarborough North, Thursday May 6, 6:30pm -
8:30pm
Filey South, Sunday May 16, noon - 2:00pm
Scarborough South, Saturday May 22, 10am - noon
Scarborough North,
Thursday June 3, 6:30pm 8:30pm
Scarborough South, Saturday June 26, noon - 2:00pm
Filey South, Sunday June 27, noon - 2pm