PHOTOS: Volunteers Collect 20 Bags Of Waste In One Hour On Banna Beach

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Participants in the Banna Coastcare beach clean-up on Sunday.

BANNA Coastcare were out in force again on Sunday taking part in this year’s Big Beach Clean. Sixteen youths joined the clean-up, removing 20 bags of rubbish from the beach and dunes in just one hour.

Banna Coastcare saw a fantastic turnout on Sunday for this year’s Big Beach Clean, approximately 30 willing volunteers gave just one hour of their time to help clean up Kerry’s beautiful coastline.

Despite a number of other clean ups taking place on Banna over the previous two weeks, approximately, 20 bags of litter were collected.

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The bags were filled with marine litter which included, fishing line, net and ropes and terrestrial litter mostly made up of plastic bottles, crisp and sweet wrappers, cigarette butts, plastic bags, face-masks and glass bottles. Some other finds included, a shopping basket, two syringes, a nappy, shoes and flip flops and an oil drum.

During the Big Beach Clean, volunteers were asked to carry out a marine litter survey to quantify the amount and types of litter found on Banna.

Participants in the Banna Coastcare beach clean-up on Sunday.

These surveys are aimed at heightening awareness about the issue of marine litter and serve as an indicator of the magnitude of the problem. Clean Coasts share this information with the international Ocean Conservancy to form part of the worldwide survey.

Rachel Geary and Maeve Ferris of Banna Coastcare wished to thank all the volunteers, in particular the younger ones, whodedicated their time to make a difference. A special thanks to Salty Souls Cafe for rewarding the younger volunteers for the efforts.

Rachel said; ‘‘it was another fantastic event, it is so heart-warming to see people come together to help combat the problem of marine litter, every piece of litter that is collected is a piece of litter that won’t pollute our oceans or harm our wildlife.”

Participants in the Banna Coastcare beach clean-up on Sunday.

The rubbish collected during the clean-up.

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