Ah, the joys of a walk on the beach...

[Two_Sheds]

Some councils are so desperate for pristine sandy beaches and good beach awards to tempt the tourists, they basically remove everything living on the shore, in the name of tidiness, together with all the washed up plastic. (46000 pieces of plastic per square mile of sea, at the last count.

Our council only cleans the beach during tourist season, and only the "tourist" beaches.

I used to voluntarily clean my own stretch of beach (for Adopt-a-beach and Beachwatch) and what I picked up most was angler's litter (line, hooks, bottles, cans, bait packets, plastic bottles filled with sand) and stuff chucked down the toilet (sanitary towel liners, wet wipes and cotton buds).