ROYAL Navy Sailors from RNAS Culdrose have been helping keep Cornish beaches clean in a team-building litter pick activity which saw 12.7kgs of rubbish collected.

Falmouth Packet: The sailors from Culdrose busy collecting rubbish from a Cornish beach The sailors from Culdrose busy collecting rubbish from a Cornish beach (Image: RNAS Culdrose)

A welly boot, a flipflop, chocolate bar wrappers, crisp packets, a bag full of dog poo and a condom were among items collected from three beaches by the sailors who all work as part of the Merlin Helicopter Force at either the Merlin Training Facility or the Engineering Training School at Culdrose in Helston. 

Falmouth Packet: 12.7kgs of rubbish was collected in two hours12.7kgs of rubbish was collected in two hours (Image: RNAS Culdrose)

Other items included fishing lines and netting, lots of rope and string, many plastic bottles, lids and bags, a child's plastic flag, a hair bobble, a metal tea-lighter holder, cigarette butts, sweet wrappers, an ice cream wrapper, plastic pipe and sheeting.

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Fortified with a Cornish pasty each, they visited Poldhu Cove, Dollar Cove and Church Cove at Gunwalloe for the organised litter pick which was part of a divisional team-building activity.

Falmouth Packet: A sailor picks up more litter found on a Cornish beach A sailor picks up more litter found on a Cornish beach (Image: RNAS Culdrose)

Leading Air Engineering Technician Jimmy House said: "We gathered 12.7kgs of rubbish in less than two hours.

"It was low tide and we found a lot of fishing line and netting all tangled up in the seaweed.

"Dollar Cove was mainly littered with bits of wood. The amount of plastic we picked up off the beach was phenomenal."

Jimmy continued: "I managed to separate as much of the plastic as I could - I didn't go near the condom or the bag full of dog poo though - and put it in the recycling back at Culdrose."