VIDEO: Operation to remove tonnes of rubbish below Beachy Head

A video has been released showing the major operation to remove harmful plastic from the coast below Beachy Head last week.
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A boat collected bags of plastic debris from underneath the cliffs at Beachy Head to prevent it from polluting the sea.

Members of the Maritime Volunteer Service’s Eastbourne unit transported tonnes of the waste from an inaccessible cove near the landmark to Sovereign Harbour for proper disposal following a plea from Eastbourne campaigner Norm Penney, the founder of Beachy Head and Seven Sisters Extreme Plastic Objects Removal – known as BHASSEXPLORE – for help.

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Over the past few months Mr Penney and a small team of volunteer helpers have worked hard to collect and bag plastic waste washed up under the cliffs. Much of it had weathered and started to break down into small particles which, say the campaigners, would have gone back into and polluted the sea.

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