MORE THAN 80kg of rubbish was collected from Weston beach after a charity litter pick event earlier this month.

Twenty-two workers from Gloucestershire-based kitchenware company, ProCook, helped to recover a range of waste products from 'car parts to teddy bears'.

The 80kg was sent to a waste-to-energy plant, operated by Printwaste, and has now been converted into electricity, which totals enough power to make 4,000 cups of tea.

Volunteers worked with charity Life's a Beach and found items such as a Christmas sock, toy cat, a dog bowl, rubble bag and even a bikini.

Life’s a Beach co-ordinator, Sophie Chappell, said: "I am so grateful to the wonderful volunteers from both ProCook and Printwaste.

"Working together we managed to clean up an amazing amount of rubbish from the beach, preventing it from being washed back out to sea.

"It is events like this that not only make our beaches cleaner for everyone but our oceans cleaner also."