More than 60 volunteers scoured the city’s beach and picked up some 40kg of rubbish as part of a global effort to fight plastic pollution. Sea Life in Brighton organised the beach clean on Wednesday as part of Sea Life Trust’s 24-Hour Global Beach Clean. The Brighton event was one of 53 which took place across the globe in a bid to reduce the eight million tonnes of plastic entering oceans annually.
The volunteers collected less rubbish than in previous years (Image: Sea Life Trust) Keira Ley, operations manager at Sea Life, Brighton, said: “We had 60 volunteers turn up – they were mostly locals but there were teams from London too. We spread out over the beach and in two hours collected over 40kg of rubbish. It’s a lower amount than we have seen before so perhaps the messaging is getting across and people are finally taking their litter home.
” Among the standard wrappers and bottle tops the team found an eclectic mix of objects including soft toys, a spanner and a baby’s hand made out of concrete..