We recently teamed up with members of the Medway Rowing Club to do our first foreshore litter pick at the southern end of The Esplanade.
It was a particularly satisfying morning, and volunteers collected a wide variety of materials including several items of garden furniture, a satchel, a road sign, part of the old pier, and the corner of a leather sofa, as well as several black sacks filled with smaller plastic waste and other discarded items.
Our next planned foreshore clean-up will be in October, after the spring tide. You may be wondering why there will be a spring tide in autumn, but spring tides occur at any time of the year. The name comes from the concept of the tide ‘springing forth’ and these tides occur twice in each lunar month, during a full moon and a new moon, when the Earth, the moon and the sun are in line with each other and the gravitational forces of the sun and moon cause the oceans to move more than usual.
When spring tides occur ‒ especially after a supermoon – the threat of flooding increases and quantities of detritus and non-biodegradable matter tend to be deposited along the shore line, so a clean up after a spring tide can be very worthwhile indeed.
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Litter Picking News
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Foreshore Litter Pick: April 2025
One of the activites we undertake a few times a year is to extend our litter picking efforts further upriver from the Esplanade Gardens to the stretch of foreshore by the Medway Towns Rowing Club. As usual, we collected a huge amount of litter, as well as some larger and more interesting items!