Litter Picking

Clean Peacehaven and Telscombe

Clean Peacehaven and Telscombe hold regular litter picks around Peacehaven and Telscombe and are always happy to help new volunteers get involved. Details of all litter picks appear on their Facebook page or email cllr.david.seabrook@peacehaventowncouncil.gov.uk.

Kingston Action Group

Kingston Action Group have been picking litter from the around Kingston, for more than 10 years. If you would like to join them, contact barrielambert200@gmail.com. They have pickers and bags but no set routine. They pick when the need arises which is regularly.

Landport Residents Association

Landport Residents Association hold regular litter picks on the last Sunday of the month with refreshments provided, and everybody is welcome! You'll find details of the next LRA litter pick (as well as their other events) on the Landport Residents Association Facebook.

Plastic Free Seaford

Plastic Free Seaford (part of the national Surfers Against Sewage campaign) hold monthly beach cleans on Seaford Beach and are always keen to see new faces joining in. They meet at different ends of the beach each month so be sure to check the Plastic Free Seaford Facebook where you will also find details of the group's regular community meetings and other events.

The Ditchling Society

The Ditchling Society holds regular litter picks in and around Ditchling and are always happy to have new volunteers joining them. For further information please email Ditchling Society info@ditchlingsociety.org.uk.

Litter Free Lewes

Please add yourself to their Facebook group if you'd like to join them. The goal is to clean up Lewes by:

1. Carrying out regular litter pick-ups - fortnightly if possible
2. Preparing educational workshops, then delivering them to local schools and colleges
3. Encouraging and helping local business to make their packaging more 'green' - both takeaways and supermarkets
4. Working with local authorities to improve signage and bins
5. Working with local artists to create anti-litter stencils (with respect to the local environment)
6. Tentatively looking in to bottle deposit scheme / refillable water bottle schemes

Looking forward to making new connections with people who would like a litter-free future! Litter Free Lewes Facebook page

Malling Litter Pickers

Malling Litter Pickers cover the area of South Malling, Lewes, although we have occasionally teamed up with our friends at Litter Free Lewes and picked in other areas of the town. Our group of volunteers (currently some 25 strong) usually meet on the third Sunday of the month at 10 a.m. outside Malling Stores (weather permitting) and we collect litter for about an hour or so. We have been in existence since August 2007 and have received support from Lewes District Council throughout. We are registered with the CPRE (LitterAction) and have our own page on their website. If you would like further information about Malling Litter Pickers please contact Organiser: Chris Burt burt.cj@gmail.com 01273 471731 or 07966 567260.

Mucky Mermaids

My name is Cheryl Foreman and I have spent many years litter picking on the local beaches. I make art from much of what I collect and have had a couple of exhibitions featuring some of it and have run workshops for Brownie groups, adults with learning disabilities and children using recycled materials.

After watching Blue Planet a few years ago I wanted to try to make more of an impact. So, I started Mucky Mermaids beach clean group on Facebook. I share any environmental information I think is relevant on the page and organise a beach clean on the last Sunday of every month. The venue is different every month so follow the page and check the events. @MuckyMermaids Cheryl.

Ringmer Community Litter Crew (RCLC)

We're a group of community volunteers from Ringmer who decided to get together and clean up the litter in the village on a regular basis. There are 46 members so far and after just a couple of weeks, we're starting to make a real difference. LDC have been really helpful in providing us with equipment and advice. We will be organising group litter picks when COVID rules allow and in the meantime members are fitting litter picking into their lives whenever it's convenient. Check us out on Facebook.

Seaford Litter Pickers

Seaford Litter Pickers is a group for like-minded people to share their efforts to make Seaford and the surrounding area a cleaner and tidier place to live. A place to share photographs and stories to encourage others to join the effort to improve our environment. Join our Facebook page to keep up with what is going on in our area, and to support each other in clearing our town of unsightly litter. Admin Gilly Cooper is contactable via Facebook messenger through Seaford Litter Pickers page.

Plastic Free Eastbourne - Adopt a Beach

This is a new enterprise, just 6 months old. It is unique - unlike any other Adopt a Beach schemes in other parts of the world.

Ours is based on the fact that our beach of about 9 kilometres is divided into 94 separate beaches. Each has a number on the groyne which divides it from the others.

Here are the principles:

• A beach may have a number of Adopters: a school, a hotel or B&B, a shop or business, an organisation, individuals and families, political representatives such as local councillors
• The purpose is to care for the well-being of the beach
• There will be no legal dimension: for example, you will not have the right to "own" your adopted beach and the Council will not be charging you for this adoption.
• The adopters will be expected to be aware of each other and be encouraged to liaise
• The commitment lasts as long as the adopter wishes
• The beach owner is Eastbourne Borough Council as far down to the sea as the Mean Low Water Mark

We launched this project on 23rd October 2020. Now, no beaches have been left as "orphans"! All 94 volunteer/beaches have been set up. Not only are Adopters cleaning "their" beach regularly but some are planning to use "their" beach as a "study centre". They might study the flora and fauna; the amount and types of debris collected over time; the activities which users of the beach undertake; the movement of the sea, tides and wave action. Creative work could include writing stories of adventure, poems of tranquillity, singing, painting, collage work, this is just a small array of the kinds of use Adopters can make on "their" beach. Where several Adopters have registered for the same beach, some are emailing each other to form groups and to socialise, increasing their campaigning in this way.

Realising that beaches are at the border of our Marine Conservation Zone, Beachy Head East. Adopters are beginning to think about our sea creatures and submarine environment off-shore. We all need to become more aware of this submarine part of our town! Adopters are also carrying out surveys of the litter they have collected. This is done on survey sheets which go via our group to Marine Conservation Society, one of our 2 charities which help our campaign.

If YOU wish to participate please contact plasticfreeeastbourne@gmail.com. You can choose your beach from the map I will send you. Then fill in the very simple proforma and return to the same email address. Once this has been approved, you are "good to go".

Motcombe Wombles Litter Pickers 

We are a group of people who love Eastbourne and especially where we live in Old Town. We pick litter to keep our community tidy and prevent harm to wildlife that eat rubbish or get injured by it. We want to stop litter getting in to our drains and in our sea. Find out more on the Motcombe Wombles and Litter Pickers Facebook Page. 

Bespoke Cycle Group Eastbourne

Bespoke is a free, non-political group passionate about cycling. We want to make it easier and safer for everyone to get around by bicycle, and are campaigning for a network of safe, continuous, and well signposted cycle routes throughout Eastbourne.

As part of our work, we also want to ensure that Eastbourne's existing off-road cycle network is clean, safe, and attractive to use. We run regular litter picks on different sections of Eastbourne's off-road cycle network. Events are advertised in our monthly newsletter and on our Facebook page ahead of time. We have litter picking sets available to use on the day, so please come along and get involved.

Let's keep Eastbourne's cycle network litter free!

Plastic Free Eastbourne Monthly Litter Picks

The Beach Clean is a great opportunity to make a positive impact on our local environment and help protect marine life. At Plastic Free Eastbourne, we encourage people of all ages to join us, Beach Clean is also a great way to get some fresh air, exercise, and do something meaningful for our planet.

Check our page for future events:
https://www.facebook.com/plasticfreeeastbourne

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