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Tonne up for Flossie and the Beach Cleaners during litter Big Weigh in

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Some of this year’s stranger finds included an adult toy, a car bumper and a live mouse. The field mouse, found trapped alive inside a plastic bag, was freed and scampered away.

Flossie Donnelly of Flossie and the Beach Cleaners recovers a discarded towel at Sandycove, Co Dublin. Photograph Nick Bradshaw/The Irish TimesVolunteers collected one tonne of litter across Ireland’s beaches and waterways on Sunday during the second annual Big Weigh In.

Groups who had signed up to host a clean-up received a Flossie pack which included bags, a beanie hat and scales to weigh the collected rubbish. The beanie hat, emblazoned with the organisation’s logo, is awarded to the person in each group who finds the oddest item. Flossie Donnelly oversaw the clean-up at Sandycove beach and explained how the idea came to fruition. “We’ve always loved the idea of doing a beach clean where we clean at the same time as someone in a different country. And then we thought we could do the same in Ireland where the entire country works together to collect rubbish and see at the end how much we can all together collect.”

 

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