Poor weather – no event this week

DUE to the seriously awful weather forecast, we have decided to call off this weekend’s beach cleaning activities. If the weather unexpectedly improves then please clean up around your local community, or local beach.
We are now placing a hold on activities for a couple of weeks to give everyone a rest, but also because we are setting up new branches of Beach Buddies in Scotland over the next two weekends.
It will be interesting to compare the levels of beach plastics on Scotland’s northwestern beaches with the Isle of Man. We will post photographs throughout the two weeks.
• Beach Buddies is sponsored by FIM Capital and receives annual funding from DEFA.

Collection Bins

Beach Buddies provides, manages and maintains a network of 50+ collection bins around the island to encourage and enable members of the public to collect and safely dispose of beach rubbish. Our team visits each of the bins each week or fortnight depending on location and season to empty the contents and ensure the bin is in good order. We recycle what we can and depose of the remainder at the Energy From Waste facility. Last year we deposited over 20 tonnes of rubbish in this way. This is at the core of operation as well as being the most intensive of our activities.