Tonnes of waste including plastic bottle caps, a huge amount of wood and abandoned fishing gear, among other things, were collected from Paradise Bay during a three-hour clean up earlier this month by volunteers from Zibel, Raniero's Adventures and Betclic Group. The beautiful beach in the North of Malta often accumulates an amount of rubbish washed up by the sea.

The clean up was organised by a number of environmental NGOs including Zibel, No to Plastic Malta and environmental activist Raniero Borg. This bay was tackled again following similar events when tonnes of waste, especially plastic remnants, were collected.

After collecting the waste, volunteers separated the rubbish in an attempt to recycle what they could to reduce the amount of waste in local landfills.

Get involved!

Zibel needs your help! In celebrating World Ocean Day, Zibel will also be organising a dive, snorkel and coastal clean-up on the 8^th of June, also at Paradise Bay. Previous clean-ups have collected over 1.6 tonnes of broken plastic and fishing material.

Coastal volunteers can lend a hand on land, snorkelers will be able to collect trash from the sea, while divers can swim into the deep blue to collect seabed waste. Water, sunblock, first aid, gloves and mesh bags will also be provided on the day.