Lochgilphead Beach Clean – 26th May 2010

 

A recent Lochgilphead beach clean saw a skip successfully filled to the brim with a variety of rubbish collected from the foreshore.

 

Local residents, high school pupils and members of local community groups joined forces to rid the bay of discarded and washed up rubbish all along the foreshore from the Corran to the school. The clean-up was organised by the Phoenix Project with the help of the GRAB (Group for Recycling in Argyll and Bute) Trust. Particular thanks go to Jane McDonald (Phoenix Project) and Aisa Nebreda (GRAB Trust) for their part in organising the beach clean.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posters for the event designed by third year pupils were distributed around the local shops. On the day, forty high school pupils collected 15 bags worth of rubbish from their section of the shoreline. Thank you to them for their enthusiastic involvement!

 

 

 

Local community members collected 36 bags of rubbish, together with other assorted materials equating to some 43 bags worth of wood, Christmas trees, other dead trees and shrubs, a bicycle, a skateboard, golf and tennis balls, road signs, an animal skull, crates, a plastic oil drum, a dustbin, and a large carpet (which took four people to shift) which was home to a colony of crabs! Thanks to everyone who got involved.

 

 

 

The Council kindly gathered up the bundles of collected rubbish on the shoreline and deposited it all in a skip provided by Shanks.

 

 

 

The beach clean is just one step towards the Phoenix Project’s aim of regenerating Lochgilphead. Pictured are members of the public Jules Clare and James McSporran, and Phoenix Project members Jane McDonald and Malcolm Sinclair. The notice on the skip said ‘The Phoenix Project – Help Regenerate Lochgilphead – Current schemes include the provision of a Community notice board and cups for local sporting associations.’ Click here for more information.

 

To find out more about the importance of cleaning up our beaches see the GRAB Trust website www.grab.org.uk/beaches.htm