WARMER weather has seen sun seekers descend en masse to Canvey’s seafront...leading to overflowing bins and litter scattered across the sea wall.

The Friends of Concord Beach emptied all the bins on Sunday morning, with no council worker on duty over weekends. They told how every single bin on the seafront was overflowing.

While another resident took to Facebook with photos of household rubbish, including rugs, carpets and plant plots which had been dumped over the sea wall too.

The picture also showed stacks of dumped plastic bottles, despite the launch of the Friends of Concord Beach’s campaign to keep plastic out of the sea, following shocking global statistics.

Colin Letchford, of The Friends of Concord Beach, said: “It led to a perfect storm hitting Concord Beach and the seafront.

“Although it is still mid-February, a week of warmer weather combined with school’s half-term holiday and council cleaners not working at weekends meant that by Saturday night all the litter bins were full to overflowing.

“However, early on Sunday morning volunteers from the Friends of Concord Beach met and emptied all the litter bins from Concord Beach to Thorney Bay.

“They also litter picked the seafront area including the Labworth car park and the cinema car park.

“The result was a pristine seafront ready for residents and visitors enjoying the afternoon’s sunshine.”

Just last week the Echo reported how Friends of Concord Beach launched its “Keep Plastic Off The Beach and Out Of The Sea” campaign in order to do its bit to reduce the quantity of plastic in the sea.

A recent study has shown the shocking amount of plastic in the earth’s seas, with fears raised that by 2050 the weight of plastic in the ocean could outweigh the weight of fish and that over 90 per cent of all seabirds have plastic in their stomachs.

Posters have been placed in noticeboards at Concord Beach and in the group’s hut at Monico Corner.

The group hopes to encourage people to learn about plastic pollution in the sea, with the posters giving a host of daunting facts, while they are planning educational presentations to schools and community groups.