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Beachbusters!

Staff from Virgin Money stepped out of their day jobs in the bank yesterday and headed out into the sunshine to clean the beach at Newbiggin by the Sea with Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Head of Conservation, Steve Lowe.

The Team from the Company’s Gosforth office mastered their litter-picking equipment and cleared a whopping 150kgs of waste from the beach in a little less than three hours. More rubbish would have been collected by the team had it not been for passers-by thanking them for all hard work!

Items collected included a car battery, bike seat, a shark egg case (which is very unusual for the Northumberland coast) and handfuls of nurdles - small plastic pellets which are used to make plastic products.

This clean-up session follows a previous beach clean with Virgin Money staff at Seaton Sluice last November.

Trust Head of Conservation Steve Lowe said: “Fired on by the wonderful sunshine, the team from Virgin Money worked non-stop and for them to collect as much rubbish as they did in a little under three hours is no mean feat! It’s great for staff in other organisations to leave their desks behind for the day and come out with us… the great outdoors is a wonderful way to charge your human battery, plus they help us with work which we would not normally have the time to tackle.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Sue Bishop .