Flintshire coastal rangers, Keep Wales Tidy, Talacre Beach Caravan Park, Haven coastal ranger and volunteers from the Quay project all took part in a pre – Easter clean up recently, to give Flintshire’s premier beach a spring clean ahead of this year’s Easter holidays.
Volunteers cleaned up everything from tractor tyres to fishing nets, old beach toys to plastic bottles.
Coastal ranger, Alistair Hemphill praised the work of all the groups that took part:
“Everyone cleared our beach from Shore Road in Denbighshire to Station Road in Talacre and out on to the Talacre Spit. The enthusiasm of volunteers and staff tackling the marine litter does them great credit.”
Judith Wright of Keep Wales Tidy said “It was a great day and we really tackled the major issue of marine litter in a positive way!”
Some of the volunteers were from Supported Living Schemes for former homeless young people managed by Clwyd Alyn Housing Association in Flintshire. “It was a great day as it involved doing something to improve the local environment at the same time as getting together with other volunteers,’’ said Clwyd Alyn Project Worker Vicki Rees.
Later on this year ‘The Big Dee Day’, co-ordinated by Flintshire Countryside Service, will be hosted by Cheshire West and Chester Council at the Chester racecourse. “The Big Dee Day” is the North Wales and North West’s biggest marine and river clean up campaign and has cleared thousands of bags of beach and river litter with hundreds of public, private and non governmental organisations taking part.
Further details are available from Flintshire Countryside Service at Wepre Park. Tel. 01244 814931.
