DMC Members Take Action to Preserve Black Rocks

Excellent clean up today with 14 volunteers collecting 16 bags of rubbish. This was a great example of the Club ‘putting something back’ with members on ropes cleaning the steep dank gullies (which are full of thrown rubbish) as well as members scouring the top and bottom of the crag.

This is the fifth year we have done this. For those who love facts:

- Over five years we have collected 106 bags of rubbish totaling around 5,350 individual items or waste;

- Most of this has been party or picnic waste. 80% has been single-use plastic (incl masses of bottles) with most of the remainder being single-use glass, tin cans, sweet wrappers and paper;

- Single-use vapes are on the up as are, somewhat surprisingly, filled dog waste bags thrown into bushes or the bracken (could you be more stupid?);

- A single-use plastic bottle takes 450yrs to degrade; aluminium cans 500yrs and glass 4,000yrs.

Big thanks to those who turned out