GB Beach Clean: Half Moon Bay

Beach clean survey underway!
Surveying beach litter at Half Moon Bay, September 2022

Thanks to everyone who came along on the 24th September as part of the Great British Beach Clean, the results for the clean are as follows:

  • Total litter for whole beach 6kg
  • 240 items per 100m of beach cleaned
  • 378 plastic items, accounting for 79% of total by number.
  • Sanitary/sewage related items accounted for 6.2% of the total. This consisted of wet wipes, cotton bud sticks etc.
  • Other groups making up the rest of the total

National statistics are correlated by MCS, and will be available through their website soon

Our next beach clean at Half Moon Bay is on Saturday 3rd December 2022 at 11:00. Furether details to follow…

Kathy MacAdam

Posted: October 4th, 2022
Posted in Beach Clean