Following last week’s blog from the wonderful rubbish-busting team on Coquet Island, our equally wonderful team on Ramsey Island sent me these pictures (thanks Lisa!).
After just one storm one of Ramsay’s beaches was filled with plastic bottles (enough to fill 20 bin bags – yes, twenty, from just one small beach!), along with the usual monofilament fishing line, rope, aerosols, and even part of an old fridge freezer!
The team did a great job clearing the beach. Not a happy task, but time very well spent.
As the weather is starting to improve, encouraging us all to get out and about more often, anything you can do to help remove rubbish from your environment is a help to wildlife. Why not take a rubbish bag (and some gloves!) next time you are out for a walk? Or perhaps organise a litter pick where you live? Your council may be able to help. I’m doing a littler pick in my village in a couple of weeks time. The council brings the bags, litter pick ‘grabber’ sticks, protective gloves, fluorescent tabards, and take away the rubbish immediately afterwards to dispose of it properly. Two years ago we found an abundance of lager cans in just one short stretch of ditch. Last year we found more than 30 empty vodka bottles in the same place. I wonder if it will be meths this year!