By Josh Budd
The Big Holiday Beach Clean starts this July
This July, Make Holidays Greener Month returns, encouraging holiday-goers to think about how they can contribute towards making our beaches cleaner, less polluted and more eco-friendly.
With this year’s theme concentrating on ‘cleaner, greener beaches’, Make Holidays Greener are set to launch a worldwide project with ambitions to clean over 100 beaches in 22 countries, by seeking the assistance of communities all over the world to participate in their large-scale beach clean-ups.
Along with hosting organised beach clean-ups, Make Holidays Greener will be offering handy tips and advice to help holidaymakers do their bit this summer, helping to reduce pollution and litter across beaches all over the world.
To make sure we can all enjoy pristine and beautiful beaches for years to come, some of the things Make Holidays Greener advise are:
- Reduce the amount of excess packaging you plan to carry before you travel. Leave your plastic bags at home, as turtles can mistake them for jellyfish and eat them, causing them fatal harm.
- Take an ashtray with you, to help limit the amount of pollution from cigarette butts that can severely damage our oceans.
- Bring reusable drinking bottles instead of plastic ones, to reduce the chance of them making their way into the ocean.
According to research carried out, plastic particles from pollution and litter have significantly affected the wellbeing of our oceans, with 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic currently endangering the lives of our ocean’s inhabitants.
This new beach-cleaning initiative of helping to tidy up litter as well as protect the natural habitats of the ocean, endeavors to make us think about how we can often directly affect the environment without realising it, giving us the opportunity to play our part in keeping our holidays enjoyable for everyone.
To muck in and play your part for the environment this summer, visit the Make Holidays Greener website to find out how you can join in the next beach clean-up near you.
