howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a bit of advance notice for this one, i have put brian's name down for it.
Brian Dixon
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#2
yep i will be down there with my fishing gear,now what bait do i need.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
Same weekend as the Makeover Dover on the 15th September
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#4
so many different things going on hard to keep up.
the weekend coming has a great line up of events with excellent weather forecast.
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Yorkshire Born And Yorkshire Bred
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#6
and what would be then young ted?.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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weather forecast cloudy and dry for today's beach clean up.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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took a walk down to aycliffe earlier to find out how many volunteers there were.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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arrived at headquarters some time later to see everyone hard at work.
very much a family thing i noticed.
a lovely backdrop to work with.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a total of sixty two(62) people turned out to help, possibly many of them were doing the same in town yesterday.
the volunteers stopped for a break at mid-day to recharge their batteries for the afternoon session.
this lot here is just a fraction of what was collected over the morning session.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just received the total of rubbish collected today, not including individual items not suitable for bagging up.
68 sacks weighing 267 kilos( over 5 hundred weight in old money).
total volunteers were 63 not 62 as i earlier posted, a great effort from people- not all local, a family from lydden were on the list i saw.
imagine the final weight of rubbish if this has been replicated at all the other hundreds of sites.
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#12
Well done Howard with those pictures and well done to all those who did the clean ups everywhere. There is a large group picture taken on Shakespeare Beach by Paul Sampson showing on our frontpage now with a hearty congratulations to all the volunteers. 63 peeps turned out..great stuff indeed!
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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A Big Up to the 63!
(American speak)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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that wouldn't surprise me in the least,what with all the crap that washes up on it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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turns out you were right brian, just received this interesting piece from mel wrigley of wccp.
Hi Howard
We've explained to various people who have been in touch that the reason that so much litter was recored was that we had the largest number of volunteers, working all dayy collecting up lots of rubbish of all sizes.
There was lots and lots of smaller plastic rubbish items, many items have foreign writting on them. And we searched among the pebbles to pick it up. We were being really thorough and recording all the little things that we found.
So the largest number of bags of rubbish collected is really a positive thing becuase it shows how brilliant our local community are, we had about 63 dedicated volunteers, working all day. Including wccp vols, local guides, brownies, cubs and scouts, DHB employees, DDC employees all coming out as volunteers to do their bit for the local environment.
It is also a function of our local geography. We Have the narrowest part of the Dover Strait so the water is funnelled into a narrow area; we have the south-westerly prevailing winds blowing the seabourne rubbish up onto the beach that gets caught by the pier at the east end of the beach. DHB do regular beach cleans. And WCCP help do the MCS Beachwatch annual survey on the beach in partnership with DHB and dedicated volunteers from the local community, who want to keep their coast clean.
Sea bourne litter is an international and global problem, with enormous rafts of plastic litter formed in 5 main areas in the North and South Atlantic, North and South Paciifc and Indian oceans. It's worth Googling 'Plastic island oceans' to see this international problem and the problems these Texas- sized rafts of litter are causing for wildlife and in the long term human health.
Thanks
Mel
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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