DOZENS of bags of waste were collected from a Minehead coastline after volunteers spent their weekend cleaning up. 

Surfers Against Sewage organised the clean up at Culvercliffe which saw 76 volunteers give up their time to collect waste. 

The group has been organising clean ups in the area since 2014. 

The latest clean saw 30 bags of waste collected, with 13 containing single-use plastic - six bags were full of plastic bottles. 

The clean-up team can struggle to get the rubbish taken away, as it can't be taken to a recycling centre as 'domestic waste'. 

Organiser Adam Reed says that the council is usually "very good" at collecting the bags. 

He said: “I wasn’t expecting so many people to come along - we’ve been doing this for several years and our record before this was 92 people.”  

Cleaning the beach can be a family activity, with volunteer Steve Brooks coming along with his partner Cheryl and daughter Daisy May. 

He said: "It's good to take part in  alocal clean-up, and you get a bit of a walk in at the same time." 

Mr Reed also plans to bring a school group for a clean-up at the town beach next week. 

District councillor, Benet Allen, said: “It’s great to see the local community come together to tackle a problem which has recently been brought to the top of our minds by David Attenborough’s TV programmes - but Surfers Against Sewage have been organising beach cleanups since 2014 in this area.”