BEACH Buddies will make its first visit this year to Kirk Michael beach (Balleira) this weekend, Sunday, May 12th from 10.30am. For those not quite sure where this is, the access is via the road midway through Kirk Michael village close to the butcher’s. The session ends at 12 noon. Everyone, as always, very welcome. We have seen new volunteers at virtually every session this year, so please bring along any new faces to give it a go for the first time.
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.
