Photographs from today’s fantastic Douglas New Year’s Dip, which raised money for Breast Cancer Now and Beach Buddies, are now on the Beach Buddies Facebook page.
Many thanks to main sponsors Canada Life International and also to The Coastguard, St John Ambulance and the RNLI. Without the continuing support of these organisations, the event could not take place.
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.
