Offenders clear Lincolnshire beaches of harmful pollution following North Sea tanker collision

Offenders serving community sentences have been working to remove large amounts of plastic from following the

A supervised group carrying out court-ordered Community Payback, cleared the Moggs Eye and Huttoft beaches.

They removed a large amount of plastic pellets containing aviation fuel and other rubbish from the beaches, collecting almost 8kg of waste.

Chris Greaves, community payback supervisor at the project says the beach clean was very productive.

He said: is hard work, and the offenders working at the project were engaged with the task. The beaches were cleared of an abundance of plastic pellets holding aviation fuel inside which have been washed up on the beaches after the North Sea tanker collision earlier this year and this will have a huge positive impact on the environment