DROVES of big-hearted volunteers will converge on Lunderston Bay on Saturday for the Great British Beach Clean.

They will be there from 11am to 5pm to remove rubbish dropped by visitors and washed in on the tides.

Unfortunately, the jewel in Inverclyde’s tourism crown is a magnet for both types of unwanted garbage, all of which is unsightly and some potentially fatal to wildlife.

How do you stop it? Not easy.

Repeated efforts are made to try to educate the public about caring for beauty spots, but there are some stubborn numbskulls who take delight in dropping stuff at their feet.

Probably the same morons who throw crisp and sweet bags, as well as fag ends, out of cars into the face of following motorists, risking accidents and leaving mountains of mess for councils to clear up at considerable expense.

We can all help to keep the beach clean by using litter bins or taking our refuse away with us, and, as Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park rangers have warned, by not flushing cotton buds and baby wipes down toilets.

It might be a case of ‘out of sight out of mind’ for the flushers, but these items don’t just vanish as if by magic into thin air - they end up on the beach.

The rangers organise regular clean-ups on behalf of the Marine Conservation Society... but they couldn’t do it without our dedicated volunteer super heroes!