Volunteer beach cleaners struck it rich when they met up for the first group event at Maenporth since February 2020.

Not only did 30 cleaners pick up 16.9kg of rubbish from the beach, car park, lane, and coastal paths on Sunday (June 6th), but one of the team also rescued a gold wedding ring.

First-time volunteer Chris Duffin from Truro made the spectacular find on the beach. It turned out that a holidaymaker had lost his wedding band at Maenporth seven days earlier and fortunately reported it to the staff at Life's a Beach Café.

Café owner Leanne said:

"The visitor had been devastated to lose his ring, so he was completely overwhelmed when we called him to say that the ring had been found, and that we'll make sure he's reunited with it."

In addition to the ring, the cleaning crew from One Bag Beach Clean, Plastic Free Falmouth, and Plastic Free Helford River picked up bits of fishing net and rope, wet wipes, microplastics, pieces of metal, and a few cans and bottles.

The group left the beach, car park, land and coastal paths looking much better.

Plastic Free Falmouth is also looking for a beach clean coordinator to help out with events, someone with a little time, transport, someone happy to get stuck in, all training provided.

This will be partly an admin role doing the paperwork and then on the day of the clean up once a month they will help coordinate volunteers, this will be up to 5 hours a month commitment. If you are interested, contact ([email protected]).

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