NOW that the critical part of the bird nesting season is over, Beach Buddies will hold its first event for several months on the north west coastline this weekend with a beach cleaning event at Blue Point at 10.30am on Sunday August 7th.
Judging by reports, we can expect a pretty busy morning as the last few months have apparently brought lots of marine rubbish to the area.
•  Beach Buddies is sponsored by FIM Capital and receives annual funding from DEFA.
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.
