Volunteers urged to join beach clean events

Volunteers will be picking up litter from beaches across the Channel Islands in a mass clean-up of the coastline.

Organisers said the seventh annual Big Channel Islands Beach Clean Up on Saturday and Sunday will see people cleaning beaches in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark - as well as the Isle Of Man.

They said volunteers across the British Crown Dependencies were being encouraged to do their bit to "preserve and protect our beaches, coastal areas and local wildlife".

Participants are asked to bring a bucket and a pair of gloves to collect any marine pollution they find and send details of interesting finds to the organisers.

The litter picking events include meet-ups at L'Etacq, Harve Des Pas and La Rocque in Jersey on Saturday and at Long Beach and Ouaisne Bay on Sunday.

Alderney Wildlife Trust is running an event at Hanaine and Clonque on Saturday.

The Sociéte Sercquaise will be holding a clean up on Sark at Port a la Jument on Saturday and at L'Eperquerie on Sunday.

Alderney Wildlife Trust said it would record every item people found along a 100m stretch of beach – from tiny microplastics to larger debris for the Marine Conservation Society to track litter sources.

For the first time this year, the Big Channel Islands Beach Clean Up will also include the Isle Of Man.

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