Beach Clean at Half Moon Bay, Heysham on 8th March 2025, report by Kathy MacAdam.

Many thanks to everyone who joined us on a lovely March morning on the beach at Half Moon
Bay. There were no obvious signs of the oil spillage from a couple of weeks ago and the beach
was exceptionally clean. I think we have local litter-picking groups to thank for that.

Above: The materials collected are dominated by plastics, followed by sanitary waste.

As usual, we split into two groups to clean and survey approximately 100 metres on each side
of the steps. The group which cleaned/surveyed the left side (HMB) collected 0.55kg. 39.58% of
this was plastic pieces and averaged 48 items of all litter types per 100 metres.

The group for the right side (HMB2) collected 1.12kg of which, 80.91% was plastics. The
average of all litter types was 309 items per 100 metres.

Above: It was not possible to work out where many of the bits of rubbish we found came from, but the largest identifiable segment came from members of the public dropping sweet wrappers and similar casual littering.

As the small plastic pieces are so dangerous for marine life, birds etc the two groups did a good
job that morning.

I hope you can join us again for the next clean and survey which will be on July 9th at 7.00 pm

Kathy MacAdam