A pair of Durban men have rallied their friends together and taken it upon themselves to clean up Durban’s beaches.
After several successful unofficial beach clean-ups, the two have taken to social networking site Facebook to source more volunteers and widen their reach.
And the volunteers are making a massive dent in keeping the beaches clean.
More than 200 bags of rubbish were collected this past Saturday for the #CleanBlueLagoon clean-up. The clean-up which took place on Blue Lagoon Beach saw around 70 passionate Durbanites rally together to pick up thousands of pieces of rubbish which was littered across Durban’s beaches after the heavy rains recently.
Around 80 per cent of rubbish collected was made up of plastic bottles and polystyrene.
Luc Quevavilliers said that he had felt compelled to act when he saw rubbish piled high on the beaches over the holidays.
“There was another beach clean-up near Virginia and on the way back I went past Blue Lagoon and I could see the massive mounds of plastic at the estuary. I put a call to action on Facebook and roped in a few friends to see if we could make a dent in it,” he said.
“The first time we went, there were six of us and we were impressed [by] how much we achieved over three days,” Quevavilliers said.
It was then, with the help of friend Dale Johnson, that Quevavilliers “formalised” the clean-ups by forming a Facebook group.
“We formalised it into a Facebook group and this helps us organise more frequent events,” he said.
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“The most impressive thing was spreading the word on Facebook and that awareness turned into a physical action of cleaning up a mess.”
“You can complain about something or you can do something about it, there was nothing stopping us from cleaning the mess,” he said.
For more information on the group, search #CleanBlueLagoon on Facebook.
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