Cornwall beach lover finds broken glass bottle sticking up out of sand at Portreath Beach

It didn't take Rachael and her son long to gather bags of litter from their local beach

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A beach lover from Cornwall has shared her disgust after she found a broken glass bottle sticking out of the sand at her favourite beach. Keen diver Rachael Edmans, from Tolvaddon near Camborne, was litter picking with her six-year-old son at Portreath Beach at the end of last week when she made the horrible find, along with a load of other litter.

Rachael, wanting to raise awareness about how some people chose to treat our beaches, said: "I went for a little walk around Portreath with my son, I had some bags so thought I would pick up some litter. I didn't have to walk far and the bag was filled. I was mortified to find a broken glass bottle just sticking out of the sand, I'm assuming it's the same people that think it's ok to put a barbecue in a wooden bin - morons. Anybody could have walked over that bottle and stood on it, it was lucky we found it first.

Read more: Beach cafe minutes from going up in flames after disposable BBQ bin fire

The barbecue reference relates to an incident last week when a lit barbecue was placed in a bin next to Swanpool Beach Cafe, almost causing the cafe to go up in flames.

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Items collected by Rachael and her son included plastic bags, tissues, takeaway wrappers and cigarettes.

Rachael added: "It all ends up in the sea or someone's foot. As a diver I'm passionate about keeping the beaches clean. And things like this make me so mad. We don't own this world we are tenants and have a duty to care for our planet.

"It really does my head in. As a diver I know that all of the rubbish on the beach ultimately ends up in the sea. They (the people responsible) have no brains and just don't care. It's probably people here on holiday. I'm hoping that by sharing these pictures it'll raise awareness and make people think twice in the future."

To mark World Oceans Day on June 8 Rachael will be one of those taking part in a sea and beach clean at Swanpool Beach starting at 8am.