Clean Coasts received overwhelming support and commitment from volunteers and communities across Ireland for the Big Beach Clean last weekend.
This year, a record number of over 600 clean-ups were organised by volunteers who removed over 95 tonnes of litter nationwide, making this Clean Coasts’ largest clean-up event yet.
In County Kerry, over 30 groups and over 650 volunteers removed an estimated 4 tonnes of marine litter with clean-ups taking place in various locations.
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There was a great turnout in Banna for the event collecting many bags of rubbish.
Meanwhile, Transition Year students from St Joseph’s Secondary School in Ballybunion, Kerry who collected 30kg of rubbish in their Big Beach Clean on Friday 20th, including numerous plastic bottles, glassware, broken flip-flops, socks and a new football.
Volunteers from Ballyheigue Tidy Towns cleared around 90kg of litter and maritime waste in their Big Beach Clean on Saturday 21st September.
Clean Coasts joined forces with Kia Ireland who supported the initiative this year by providing clean-ups kits and supplies to volunteers throughout the country.
The Big Beach Clean is an annual call to action that runs as part of the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC), operated internationally by Ocean Conservancy and invites communities and volunteers around the country to remove litter from around the Irish coast after the end of the bathing season. Scroll down for photos…
