Get stuck in with the Great British Beach Clean

The Marine Conservation Society’s Great British Beach Clean (16-19 Sept 2016), is the UK’s biggest beach clean up and survey. You’ll help to get your local beach clean and the survey provides vital information on sources of marine litter in the UK.

Over 6,000 volunteers took part in 2015 and an average of 3,298 items of litter were picked up for every kilometre of beach cleaned, including 100 plastic bottles, 120 cotton bud sticks, 197 food wrappers and 960 pieces of plastic and polystyrene.

Other events run throughout the year and around the country. Find a beach clean near you at www.mcsuk.org/beachwatch