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Malta’s beach-cleaning ninjas

by Liz Ayling
June 5, 2009March 8, 2010Filed under:Uncategorized

Malta's natural beaches.  Let's keep them that way

Malta's natural beaches, Let's keep them that way

Cleaner seas start with cleaner beaches. So this Sunday 7 June, at 5pm, a dedicated team is making time to do some back-yard cleaning in Malta’s own, starting with Ghajn Tuffieha.

It’s easy to shrug shoulders at the hopelessness of doing anything about mid-Atlantic or mid-Pacific floating islands of waste. But we can do something about those on our islands.

And, with the peak summer season approaching, it’s a good time to make some noise about ‘tidying up before you leave the beach’. Locals and tourists alike are culprits at leaving garbage. But, let’s face it, who wants to sit among rusting tuna cans, bathe among swathes of plastic bags or have to battle wasps feeding on dropped food waste?

Clearly most of us visit the beach more than once in a summer, and we’d all like to find it clean. So, make some noise, join the group, have some fun, and do your bit this weekend…

See the beach clean-ups’ Facebook group, That’s Rubbish, for more info.

Oh, and here’s some food for thought on how much waste we each produce in Malta a year; and this doesn’t include what’s dropped on the beaches:

‘In 2007, Malta produced 652 kg of municipal waste per person. This, according to Eurostat, puts Malta among the highest in the EU, alongside other worst offenders – Denmark, Ireland, Cyprus and Luxembourg.’ (Sunday Times of Malta, 24 May ’09)

Photo: Andrew Galea Debono

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About Liz Ayling

Liz Ayling is a serial blogger, feature writer and self-taught geek who has been an expat in Malta for over 20 years. She founded destination site Malta InsideOut in 2009. You'll find her at at her screen in an old village farmhouse which she shares with her Maltese husband, teenage son and two cats. Liz considers herself an insider nowadays but never ceases to be surprised by all that Malta has to offer.

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