More than 480,000 items of litter removed from UK beaches in nationwide survey
by Rebecca Speare-Cole
Mar 20, 2024
2 minutes
More than 480,000 items of litter were removed from UK beaches in 2023 as part of a nationwide survey.
In the Marine Conservation Society’s (MCS) annual beach clean, 14,721 volunteers picked up rubbish from their local beaches and recorded the number of items found within a 100m stretch.
Publishing its annual State of our report on Wednesday, the charity said half of all
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