The Great British Beach Clean will take place this weekend from September 20 to 23. Volunteers are urged to join the Marine Conservation Society to clear litter from the UK’s coastline and help collect valuable data. 

Local beaches signed up include Millendreath on September 21 and Portwrinkle (East) on September 22.

Volunteers not only remove harmful marine litter but also record all the litter they find along a designated 100m stretch of beach which helps MCS build a picture of the most prolific litter types and tackle them at source. 

Cleaning and surveying a beach only takes a couple of hours. Each beach has a coordinator and last year’s cleans found an average of 600 items of litter per 100m of beach.

Sign up to a clean near you at www.mcsuk.org/greatbritishbeachclean and if you can’t find an event on your preferred beach, call 01989 566017 and find out how you can organise your own.