We held our annual GBBC at Half Moon Bay, Heysham as usual on the 22nd September. We had a great turn out of volunteers and many thanks to everyone who came.

Over the last few years, we have found the beach quite clean and volumes of litter have been low. This time, the beach was exceptionally clean and we cleaned away in total 0.9 kg. (0.4kg & 0.5kg from the two surveyed areas. The weight was greatly enhanced by bagged dog-poo!

As always, the greatest proportion of litter was in the form of plastic bits. Although these may seem innocuous, these little bits can be a real danger to marine life and birds. So good work from our volunteers in getting these things off the beach.

Weather-wise we were treated kindly and it was an enjoyable morning. We hope to see people again on the next beach clean on 7th December.

Kathy MacAdam