It’s Wardie Bay Beachwatch #6 this coming Saturday and the team is growing nicely (writes KAREN BATES). We have the promise of a deposit return scheme thanks to every last soul who played a part in pushing for that welcome announcement. Let’s keep going and begin to focus on the life on our beaches, not the waste.
The July Wardie Bay Beachwatch data survey is linked here. As ever this goes towards the MCS national litter database, which is vital to ring in the changes. If you want the full breakdown, please let me know and I’ll send it to you. 20 of us collected 10 bags of 24.25kg of rubbish: 62.9% plastic and 26.4% sewage related debris.
Since last time, I was invited to meet up with the recently reformed Wardie Bay Residents Association. They want the same things as we do and have been advocating and beach cleaning for much longer than Wardie Bay Beachwatch has been on the block. Meeting together and working together we can all help to get things done. Look out for their public meeting in October. I also went on a Capturing Our Coast training day led by our very own Tara Proud of MCS. This was a wonderful and eye opening day and I hope that we can bring some investigative minds together to start to make a record of the life on our historic rocky shore.
Saturday is promising to be a lovely day. Plenty to share and plenty to discover together on the beach. It starts at 12:30 and ends at 15:00. You can sign up on the MCS website, on facebook, or follow updates on twitter. See links below. There’s a risk assessment for the event also on the MCS Wardie Bay page. Please read it, particularly if you’re bringing children.
Karen
Wardie Bay Beachwatch
email: wardiebaybeachwatch@gmail.com
facebook: @WardieBayBeachwatch
twitter: @wardiebaybeach
MCS website: Wardie Bay
