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Tourism For All member, Stubcroft Farm Campsite are pleased to announce the launch of their new “Beach Clean Kits”. The dangers of Marine Plastic pollution and the widespread detrimental effects on marine ecosystems has been highlighted by David Attenborough’s recent Blue Planet series on TV.
Stubcroft Farm Campsite is in Chichester on the south east coast, as well as being keen to help protect the environment, the site is an inclusive camping area which has been recently refurbished to include a state of the art ameneties block with plenty of accessible facilities.
The new kits are loaned free of charge to campers who want to help clean up the local beaches and reduce the amount of plastic entering the seas along this part of the South Coast. They will also be available to local community groups and volunteers as well. They come in two sizes, smaller “family size” bags suitable for one or two families and larger tote boxes suitable for bigger groups. Each kit contains everything needed to safely collect all types of beach waste. They include litter pickers, hi vis safety vests, bag holders & bags, gloves, sharps kits, advisory notes and much more. Already the first three families to join in collected six large rubbish bags of mixed plastic waste from local beaches last weekend which has prevented this from being washed out to sea by the tides. The beach cleaning also raises awareness from other beach goers and hopefully will make them think twice about leaving litter on the beaches.
As an optional extra, the site can also provide recording sheets which are returned to the Marine Conservation Society which helps them monitor the sources and type of marine waste to help put pressure on companies and politicians to reduce polluting plastics, especially single use plastics, at source.
Campsite owner Simon Green said: “The majority of our campers as well as the huge influx of summer tourists come to this area to enjoy our great sandy beaches. Whilst many are responsible & take their rubbish back with them, significant amounts of rubbish are left on the beaches especially after busy weekends. Large amounts of all kinds of plastic rubbish is also washed up by incoming tides from old fishing nets to plastic bottles & bags, all of which has a detrimental effect on marine wildlife. We hope our Beach Clean Kits will help remove sat least some of this rubbish and stop it being washed back out to sea”.
You can find out more about Stubcroft Farm and their award-winning accessibility features by reading our case study here.
If your family or group is interested in borrowing any of the kits during your stay, please email: mail@stubcroft.com or phone: 01243 671469 for further details.
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Sources:
PRESS RELEASE 03/08/2019 – STUBCROFT CAMPSITE LAUNCHES NEW COMMUNITY BEACH CLEAN KITS emailed 3/8
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Stubcroft Farm Campsite is an award winning, traditional, family run site close to some of the South Coast’s best sandy beaches, Chichester Harbour and the South Downs National Park. The campsite is in level paddocks surrounded by arable fields and sheltered by attractive hedges & trees. There is a wealth of wildlife on the farm with over 72 species of birds identified; deer, hedgehogs, foxes, rabbits, rare butterflies and much more. We pride ourselves on a friendly & welcoming atmosphere.
