Our group of volunteers gathered at the warden's hut to distribute the litter picking equipment and prepare for a couple of hours clearing the sand dunes of rubbish and debris. Hopefully today's turnout was sufficient to establish the clean-up as a regular monthly event, and it's quite obvious from the rubbish collected that it's needed!
In the coming few days we'll be contacting the council's Clean and Green team, along with the Countryside Rangers, to arrange a coordinated initiative to collecting the litter along the top of the promenade area and also on the beach itself. As part of that approach we'll ask for more litter bins to be provided along the sea front so that no one can have any excuse for leaving their litter behind after they've visited Crimdon.
In the meantime we will continue to work with the council to ensure that as far as possible where litter is found it will be collected without delay.
