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Clean Coasts Asking Beachgoers Not To Bring Glass With Them To The Beach

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09:47 7 Aug 2021


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It says by doing this they'll remove a severe injury risk and will protect the country's coastline from litter.

Almost 90 percent of its social media followers in a survey said the presence of glass would put them off going back to a beach in the future.

Coastal Communities Manager, Sinead McCoy, says it's a risk for children and pets and is often out of sight:

"Like at any of the big clean-ups recently, we find a lot of glass, a lot of cans,  a lot of leftovers from people drinking on a beach, and it's always up on the dunes,  they are kind of hidden away a little bit. That's a massive problem for kids running up and down a beach area, but for animals, for pets, for anyone that's down on the beach at all."

 

Clean Coasts Asking Beachgoers Not To Bring Glass With Them To The Beach

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