Plastic Free Helensburgh volunteers clean up East Bay shore

Organised by Plastic Free Helensburgh, locals joined forces to tidy the East Bay beach on Saturday, April 13 and filled five bags with plastic waste.

The group, which consisted of 16 adults and three children, concentrated on the grass area as the recent winter storms had blown up all the plastic debris.

The volunteers braved the cold and windy weather to clean up a section of East Bay (Image: Plastic Free Helensburgh)

Hundreds of plastic bottle lids, tampon applicators, cotton buds were collected leaving the area in a much better state than before.

Thousands of pieces of plastic were collected from the grass area (Image: Plastic Free Helensburgh)

Some toys were also found during their efforts (Image: Plastic Free Helensburgh)

And as a reward for their hard work, volunteers were able to warm up with a cup of coffee and home baking at Helensburgh Community Hub.

Volunteers of all ages showed up to clean the beach (Image: Plastic Free Helensburgh)

The town's next beach clean will take place on the shore at the promenade on Saturday, April 27 at 10am in, hopefully, better weather than that which graced the East Bay on Saturday.

Volunteers interested in lending a hand are asked to meet at the pier slipway and to bring suitable gloves.

Volunteers were rewarded with a hot drink and home-baking (Image: Plastic Free Helensburgh)

New and returning volunteers are encouraged to join the effort with people of all ages welcome.

Participants do not need to stay for the whole clean and are invited to join even if they can only give 30 minutes of their time.