The Great British Beach Clean is a week-long citizen science event, where hundreds of beach cleans take place up and down the UK.

Litter data collected on beach cleans drives the conservation work of the Marine Conservation Society and helps them to campaign for change.

The data has been used to make a positive impact on our ocean – including the introduction of the plastic bag charge, banning microplastics in personal care products, better wet wipe labelling, and supporting a tax on single-use plastic items.

But there is still so much to do to stop the litter plaguing our beaches.

As part of Great British Beach Clean week 100m long sections of beaches are surveyed and this is what we did yesterday evening at Cullen. The survey is a 100m stretch from the steps near Sauna at the Kings along the beach.

The images with this post are the results from that 100m survey. We did also litter pick the full length of the beach from the Three Kings rocks to the far end and back and a massive thank you to the volunteers who did this.

Perhaps the biggest frustration was the number of ‘full’ poo bags found, 7 alone in the 100m stretch and many more along the beach…

The oldest item found was an old style ring-pull from a can of drink.

Last night’s beach clean was the 50th beach clean we have organised.