ANOTHER FANTASTIC DAY WITH ST JOHN’S SCHOOL

BEACH Buddies once again supported St John’s Primary School for the annual St John’s Village litter pick when the entire school and teachers took part.
In total a record 35 bags of litter were collected plus some larger objects such as a fridge and a TV that sadly had been fly-tipped rather than taken to St John’s Civic Amenity Site.
The Shearwaters class discovered that a large amount of rubbish has been fly-tipped behind the cricket pavilion on the village cricket field.Young Noah in our Robin Class said, after seeing lots of plastic litter, “If this carries on, life will be destroyed”. The Robins also found a crisp packet from 2013!
• Another very BIG thank you to St John’s School whose teachers and students have been fantastic over many years in their efforts to keep St John’s neat and tidy and to spread the word about the way we dispose of our litter.
We include a selection of photographs from the day, showing just how much we managed to collect together.

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.