Ghosts and ghouls tackle beach litter on 'Hallowclean'

Brightonians in fancy dress danced for three hours to classics like Monster Mash and Time Warp, while removing litter from the beach and preventing it from landing in the ocean.

The event was co-organised by local community group Pier 2 Pier Beach Clean, and Brighton and Hove City Clean as part of City Clean’s latest #StreetAhead campaign to tackle litter in the city.

It also joined several other beach cleans happening around the country as part of the Surfers Against Sewage Autumn Beach Clean Weekend. Participants enjoyed three music channels, free cookies and mulled apple juice from Old Tree Brewery.

The Pier 2 Pier Beach Clean said the most common items found on the clean were plastic bottles, plastic straws, bottle lids, carrier bags, fishing gear and food packaging. All hard plastics found were collected by Terracycle to produce the world’s first recyclable shampoo bottles containing 25 per cent recycled marine plastics.

It added that recent predictions estimate that by 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than fish, and already, 35 per cent of fish off the coast of Brighton have plastic in their gut. The Pier 2 Pier Beach Clean wants to make 'Brighton and Hove part of the solution, not the problem'.

Organisers Amy Gibson and Dean Curtis said: “The silent disco attracts people who may have never thought about beach cleaning before, but they’re usually so shocked at how much litter they find that they want to do it again. We’re so pleased that so many people got involved and were able to see just how much difference they can make in a short space of time.”

The Pier 2 Pier Beach Clean is a volunteer-run community group that holds monthly beach clean events on Brighton Beach between the Palace Pier and the West Pier.

To find out more, visit: