Girl Guides support beach clean-up mission
To date, Zoë has reached 70 beaches, and picked up 1.8 tons of litter.
Environmental activist Zoë Prinsloo (21) from Cape Town is cleaning 100 beaches in 60 days covering more than 6 000km.
The young, ambitious woman is on a mission to make a difference to South Africa’s beaches.
To date, Zoë has reached 70 beaches, and picked up 1.8 tons of litter.
Zoë said the bottomline is that there is no clean beach along the South African coastline.
She recently made a stop at several South Coast beaches, and with the help of the Port Shepstone Teddies, Brownies, Girl Guides and Rangers and their families they collected large amounts of litter at the following beaches: Mtwalume Beach – 6kg, Umzumbe Beach -3.6kg, Sunwich Port Beach – 54kg, Sea Park Beach – 43.3kg, The Block, Port Shepstone – 41.1kg and Lucien Beach – 20.7kg.
Zoë thanked all the amazing children and their parents for the great job of cleaning the beach and picking up a lot of litter.
The first clean-up with the Girl Guides took place at Sunwich Port Beach. Some tackled the beach and others cleaned between the shrubs and bushes along the top and near the parking area.
“As has become the norm, we found loads of alcohol bottles and cigarette butts and bottles tops. Well done to everyone and thank you for helping us collect 54kg of litter,” she said.
Zoë said that at The Block in Port Shepstone they found quite a mixture of items but a lot of polystyrene pieces.
“Take-away containers definitely play a big part. We taught the children about nurdles or plastic pellets, and nearly all of them managed to find some!” said Zoe.
At Lucien, the beach looked like a beautiful, clean beach.
“We did, however, find take-away containers, straws, bottles, plastic bags, polystyrene pieces and even a broken laptop. Oh! And I picked up R2.50 in coins. Who says cleaning the beach doesn’t pay?” chuckled Zoë.
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