Rame Peninsula Beach Care is holding the sixth of its 12 quarterly marine litter surveys this weekend.

The survey will take place at 11.30am on Saturday, January 14, at Polhawn.

All beach cleaning equipment will be provided for those who would like to help. The marine litter survey will be followed by a ‘Capturing Our Coast’ survey at 12.45pm, led by Ben Holt from the Marine Biological Association, recording marine plant and animal species on the rocky shore.

The data will be combined with that from 19 other groups around the UK to build up a baseline picture of marine litter levels around the country which can be used in future as a basis for policy to tackle it.

So far finds from the surveys have averaged around 7,000 individual pieces of litter from just 100m of beach which have all had to be counted.