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Close your eyes and picture your local beach. What does it look like? Is it beautiful, peaceful, almost surreal? Or do you picture the sad reality of most of our beaches - covered in plastic and rubbish? For quite some time now our oceans and beaches have been neglected and resemble a dumping ground, the worst of it is what you can’t see. In fact, it is estimated that up to 13 million metric tons of plastic ends up in the ocean each year. This figure is terrifying and will sadly carry on increasing if we don’t do anything about it.
Beach clean ups are great at helping migrate the problems caused by plastic pollution. They allow like-minded people to get involved and connected with something that is great for the environment and those of us on it.
You don’t have to travel thousands of miles to find a beach that is severely polluted, instead go to your closest beach and take a walk. We can almost guarantee that you will come across rubbish of some sort, whether it’s cigarette butts, plastic bottle tops, fishing nets, lolly sticks etc.
Why you should get involved in a beach clean up...
How do I get involved with a beach clean up?
Getting involved is easy! There are lots of local, voluntary beach clean up groups on the Kent coast, many of which have FaceBook pages that you can join. Here are a few beach clean up groups and pages we found in Kent:
Kent is a beautiful and scenic county, with easy access to amazing beaches, rivers and lakes. Let’s work together to ensure we keep them this way and remove the rubbish trying to interfere!
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