Call for volunteers to help clean up 80 Cork beaches

The Big Beach Clean initiative is also an opportunity for volunteers to get involved in a worldwide citizen science project

Clean Coasts 2022 Big Beach Clean. Left to right - Colum O'Sullivan, Founder Cully & Sully, Elaine Doyle, Clean Coasts Campaigns Officer, Cullen Allen, Founder Cully & Sully, Emlyn Cullen, National Spring Clean Manager, Proinsias Ó Tuama, Clean Coasts Ballynamona. Photo: Cathal Noonan

Volunteers are being sought as more than 80 beaches are being cleaned in Co. Cork this weekend as part of a Clean Coasts project to remove litter.

In previous beach cleans the group has discovered bottles with labels going back at least three decades. During the summer months, they have picked up masks, towels, flip-flops, beer bottles, broken glass and tents.