A clean-up campaign along Hout Bay Beach in Cape Town will take place this weekend in honour of World Environment Day on Monday.

The coastal clean-up will be facilitated by Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages (CCPB) and Clean C, an environmental coastal activist organisation. The clean-up also closely coincides with World Oceans Day next Thursday.

“Cleaning up the environment is just one way of giving back to the communities where we serve,” said Priscilla Urquhart, public affairs and communications manager at CCPB. “At every beach clean-up, we use the opportunity to talk about the value of recycling plastic items and encourage preservation of natural beauty that we can all enjoy together.”

At the clean-up, World Oceans Day and World Environment Day will be celebrated.

“As Capetonians, we are lucky enough to say we live beside not one, but two oceans and so we have an increased responsibility to care for marine life in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans,” Urquhart continued. “If we all do our bit to take care of the environment and dispose of waste responsibly, we can be sure that the next generation will also enjoy this beautiful stretch of coastline around the Cape Peninsula as much as we do.”

Beach clean-ups are regular initiatives at CCPB. The Hout Bay Clean-up follows two previous successful series of clean-ups which were held over New Year and Easter this year. On these occasions beaches from Hermanus to Saldanha Bay were part of the clean-up campaign. At each clean-up, local volunteers scour the beaches for waste and recyclables, and are instrumental in promoting local recycling initiatives in the Cape.

Details for the clean-up are as follows:

• Date: Saturday, 03 June 2017
• Time: 09:00
• Venue: Hout Bay Beach, near the River Mouth (meet at Coca-Cola gig-rig near Mariner’s Wharf on Beach Road)