Ahead of this year’s Earth Day – Saturday, 22nd April – Red Funnel staff members joined forces with volunteers of the Isle of Wight-based environmental community group, Planet Aware to partake in a beach cleaning afternoon at Binnel Bay in St Lawrence.
The volunteers collected 67kg of rubbish which included scores of plastic bottle caps, food wrappers, fishing tackle line and ropes, disposable face covers, tyres, kids’ toys, shoes, and shotgun shells.
Sarah Marshall, Coastal Community Volunteer and Chair at Planet Aware, said:
“Beach cleaning is a great way to see your local coast all while doing something to help keep it beautiful. It offers a sense of personal well-being through offering a service to the local community, meeting new people and enjoying being outdoors. Events like this also help to remind us how our resource use and waste impacts our oceans and prompts us to think about creating changes in our day-to-day lives.”
Leanna Lakes, Operations Director at Red Funnel, said:
“We’re committed to finding innovative ways to reduce and mitigate all aspects of our environmental impact, and to protect the environment and biodiversity within the places we operate. Our colleagues thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the beach clean, and it’s something we’re excited to take even further, with plans in place to pledge more staff to support Planet Aware with all their upcoming beach cleans this year.
Red Funnel recently announced their new ESG strategy, Changing Tides. The plan charts Red Funnel’s course to net zero and offers a framework to achieve real and measurable results in terms of making a positive impact on the environment and the Island community.
Planet Aware is a community group with a mission to reduce coastal and marine pollution on the Isle of Wight. The group seeks to raise awareness of the importance of the ocean in people’s everyday lives, as it is a food and oxygen source, as well as a vital carbon sink. The group seeks to explore and enable changes that people can easily adopt to protect the oceans for future generations.
Oi leave my crab traps alone.
I bet the staff loved this publicity stunt NOT
think red funnel should look at cleaning their ferries first
Red Funnel staff are very picky when it comes to Beach Parties.
Seely should have helped, he likes beach parties.
RED FUNNEL: We’re committed to finding innovative ways and aspects to extract as much money from the poor saps who have to use our crappy ferries.
This is just greenwashing. 67kg of trash doesn’t come close to the diesel they burn on our shores.