Be a Beach Clean Hero in Brighton!

BE A BEACH CLEAN HERO!

Join the Pier 2 Pier Beach Clean every month in Brighton for Silent Disco Beach Cleans with games, music, art, dancing and more!

On Saturday 3rd March 2018 two hundred and fifty “beach clean heroes” picked up litter from Brighton beach between the West and Palace piers, in another massive Silent Disco Beach Clean.

Volunteers came out on a cold Saturday morning dressed as superheroes and dancing to DJs via wireless bluetooth headphones. In just three hours they collected over two hundred and fifty kilos of litter - largely made up of single-use plastics like bottles, cups and food wrappers.

The event was one of a series of monthly mass beach cleans in Brighton organised by the Pier 2 Pier Beach Clean community group and Brighton & Hove City Council’s ‘Streets Ahead’ campaign. This month the event formed part of the Great British Spring Clean - a national campaign which inspires over 400,000 people across the country to get outdoors and clean up towns, villages, countrysides and beaches.

Millions of tonnes of plastic enter the ocean from the land every day and kill tens of thousands of marine mammals, fish and seabirds; and just off the coast of Brighton thirty five per cent of fish are predicted to have plastic in their guts. The Pier 2 Pier Beach Clean aims to see two thousand people cleaning beaches in Sussex over 2018 through their mass clean-up events, and they encourage adults and children to get involved and “be a beach clean hero”.

Organiser Amy Gibson said: “Even in the coldest weeks of the year we are still finding litter on our beaches. We each have a responsibility year-round to care for our local environment and it doesn’t have to be dull, we can all be superheroes!”

Video by Amber Rose Morgan Films.