Beach Litter Clean Up: Wardie Bay, Granton

On 3rd August, 12 volunteers lifted their litter pickers and donned yellow volunteer vests to clean our beautiful local beach, Wardie Bay. The audio clip below explains why we love the beach, what we found and why anyone would want to pick litter for an evening..

This annual clean up clean up was organised by a local community group, linked to a local church. Events like this are desperately needed to tackle the huge litter problem at the bay. Thankfully community groups and local residents have taken the iniative to organise clean ups throughout the summer.  

Wardie bay is a great place to relax, take a walk, build a sandcastle or spot a seal if you're lucky. The bay hit the headlines earlier this year when thousands of starfish were washed up in a 'natural phenomina'. They loved...and lost.

Organising a clean up is really easy and great fun, you can borrow a wheely bin full of litter pickers from the City of Edinburgh Council for free and once you've set a date, you can promote it to local people in Leith using the events section of the Greener Leith Social.

For more information on organising a communtiy clean-up event, you should check out the "factsheets and leaflets" bit of the Keep Scotland Beautiful website.

Greener Leith plans to organise more clean-up events in the Autumn, and we'll post details nearer the time.

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Image Credit: Kenny Gunn-Russell