{"id":462640,"date":"2026-05-27T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/462640\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:39:07","slug":"bank-holiday-littering-forces-two-day-clean-up-of-cromer-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/462640\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank holiday littering forces two-day clean-up of Cromer beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council acknowledged that during peak times bins can often fill up faster than they can be collected, but said additional bins were also placed in advance of the weekend in anticipation of higher visitor numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said members of the public had helped regular volunteers collect the litter left by others. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One person, who helped collect litter, commented on the council&#8217;s social media post that he had picked up a used nappy, paper coffee cups, tin cans and bottles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jill Boyle, a Cromer councillor who also cleaned up some of the litter on her dog walk, said she often carried a bin bag for litter collection while walking on the beach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;How can people fill a beautiful, completely clean beach with litter in three days with no thought of the danger to children, dogs and wildlife? I am lost for words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Callum Ringer, environmental services portfolio holder, said: &#8220;We are blessed with so many miles of beautiful beaches in North Norfolk, and we would just ask that you leave it as you find it, and take your waste to the nearest bin, or if they are full and waiting to be collected, take it home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council spokesman said: &#8220;While there was no monetary cost to the additional crew being diverted to clean it up, it did mean that there were service pressures at other locations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local authorities have the power to issue on-the-spot fixed penalty notices for littering beaches, ranging from \u00a380 to \u00a31,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council acknowledged that during peak times bins can often fill up faster than they can be collected,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-462640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}