Weymouth Sea Life cleaning up beaches for World Oceans Day
They've been collecting litter on the beach at Preston this morning
Sea Life Weymouth is one of many centres across the country helping clean up Britain's beaches for World Oceans Day.
32% of the 78 million tons of plastic packaging produced annually ends up in the world’s oceans.
That's why Sea Life branches across the UK are uniting to clean up the coast together today.
They've been holding a beach clean at Preston this morning.
Tamsin Mutton-McKnight is the Manager at Sea Life Weymouth.
She said:
"Even though Weymouth beaches are generally quite well looked after you do see that impact of human activity. We often find discarded plastic, particularly food containers, straws, things like that that people have left behind after perhaps picnics on the beach."
It comes as new research suggests children are driving the green agenda within their homes, influencing their parents and grandparents towards making more environmentally friendly choices.
Tamsin added:
"We know that families who visit together, it's the children that are often the ones that are the strongest supporters for sea life.
"They are helping to educate and inform their parents. Children are naturally so inquisitive and passionate about the seas and I think that does make adults stop and think about what we're doing and what we are leaving for future generations to have to deal with.
"The key thing that everybody can do is make sure they reduce plastic use when they can, that they recycle and certainly if they're taking trips to beaches, to ponds, to canals, make sure they take their rubbish home with them.
"If they have the time, a little mini-5-minute beach clean if everybody did that it would make a real difference to the environment."