AN environmental group is asking for volunteers to help it carry out an ‘extreme’ beach clean near Minehead in the summer.

The event will take place on Greenaleigh Sand, which is near Minehead, and is being organised by the Plastic Free Exmoor group.

The clean up on Exmoor’s most easterly beach will take place on Saturday, July 6, from 10am to 1pm.

Greenaleigh Sand experiences lots of ocean debris washed up along its length after high tides and strong onshore winds.

In July of last year, a similar beach clean by more than a dozen volunteers saw the removal of 300 kg of debris, which included large amounts of plastic and fishing line, nets, and ropes.

This year, the volunteers will meet in Minehead before walking the mile and a half to the beach at Greenaleigh, where the pebble ridge above the sands will be cleaned.

Collecting sacks will be provided but volunteers are being asked to take their own pair of gloves and to wear footwear suitable for walking and beach cleaning.

The beach clean, which is one of more than 50 activities helping to form Exmoor National Park’s two-week Festival of Nature, is also one of the Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) ‘Million Mile Clean’ events.

Anybody who wants to take part in the Greenaleigh Sand beach clean should contact Plastic Free Exmoor by emailing to [email protected] for more information and also to book a place for themselves.

The ‘Million Mile Clean’ has been running since 2021 when SAS started to rally 100,000 volunteers to each clean 10 miles of blue, green, or city space each year, and will continue until 2030, by which time a million people will have been mobilised to clean 10 million miles of UK landscape.