ENVIRO

NMENT

IF POLITICIANS WANT TO BUILD UNDEMOCRATIC, DEPERSONALISING, (OH SO) CONTROLLING GLOBAL POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, THEN LET THEM BE OPEN AND HONEST ABOUT IT, NOT BLAME THE WEATHER!

OUR POLICIES — AT A GLANCE

CIVIC ENVIRONMENT

  • Every Scrap Of Graffiti Removed
  • Litter and Dog Fouling
  • Street Clutter
  • Footpath and Cycle-path Lighting
  • Video-Cams In All Major Subways
  • Councils Prohibited From Planting Dangerous Foliage Near Footpaths and Cyclepaths
  • Council-Maintained Flowerbeds To Be Planted With Life-Enhancing, Beautiful Flowers, NOT Ugly 'Biodiversity' Weeds!

AIR QUALITY

  • Tighter Regulation Of Businesses Creating Unwelcome Odours
  • Tighter Restrictions on Sewage Treatment and Rendering Plants and Crematoriums
  • Support For Recent Government Policy Requiring A Move To Electric-Only Cars

NOISE POLLUTION

  • Noise-Based Bird-Scarers Banned
  • Compulsory Treatment and/or Resettlement To Deal With The Nuisance of Dog Barking
  • Aircraft Noise
  • Workplace Noise
  • Bin Collection Start-Times Delayed Until After 9-00am and Bins Returned To Out-of-The-Way Locations
  • Alternative Technology To Slab Grinders Researched
  • Existing Environmental Regulations Relaxed Where They Cause Essential Consumer Products To Become Unfit For Purpose
  • Effective Action Taken Against The Motorbike 'Baffle-Boyz'
  • All Burglar Alarms Limited To A 5 Min Maximum Duration

BEAUTY SPOTS and BEACHES

  • Beauty Spots, Woods, Rivers and Lakes To Have A Presumption of A Right To Roam
  • Beaches Cleared of All Debris and Untreated Sewage
  • Councils Prohibited From Planting Dangerous Foliage Near Footpaths and Cyclepaths

CONSUMER PRODUCTS

  • Toxic Chemicals : New Regulations Implementing The 'Precautionary Principle' Introduced
  • Review Of Sirens On All Emergency Vehicles

LANDFILL and RECYCLING

  • Recycling Made Entirely Voluntary
  • All Recyclable Items Collected In A Single Kerbside Collection
  • All Rubbish To Be Collected In A Single Wheelie Bin
  • All Residential and Business Waste Taken To Landfill Should Be Free of Charge
  • At-Depot Sorting of General Household Waste
  • New Strict Packaging Laws On All Products
  • Deposits Paid For The Return of New or Used Large Recyclable Items
  • Landfill Waste Further Reduced By The Use of Incinerators With Multiple Filters

FARMING PRACTICES

  • GM Crops Controlled and GM Products Clearly Labelled
  • Farming Techniques Made More Animal and Nature-Friendly
  • Fish Farming Reviewed

WATER SUPPLY

  • West-to-East Aqueduct Started
  • Subsidised State of the Art In-Home Water Filters Made Available
  • All Fluoridation of Water Supplies Stopped
  • All Sewerage Treated Prior To Discharge
  • Tough Sanctions On Illegal Discharges Into Water Courses
  • Water-Efficient Toilet Cisterns Made Compulsory

An Environmental Policy Based On Realities Not Myths

Many leading environmental scientists from across the globe do not accept the claims of the ideologically-motivated environmentalist lobby, that recent increases in industrial activity has lead to increased CO2 production which has caused global warming — which will lead to rises in sea levels and all of which can be reversed by controlling industrial CO2 production.


From a purely factual perspective, the science, from across many disciplines, seems very strongly to indicate that although CO2 levels and global temperatures are connected, human activity accounts for less than 1% of CO2 in the atmosphere and the direction of causation lies in completely the opposite direction — the earth's temperature, levels of CO2 in the atmosphere and sea-levels rising and falling for thousands of years and in sync with and caused by variations in solar activity. THE ASSERTION THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY INDUSTRIAL CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS THEREFORE HAS NO BASIS IN SCIENCE OR REALITY.

(For a devastating expose of the Climate Change scam, please see "The Great Global Warming Swindle" — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYhCQv5tNsQ and chapter 2 of "World Turned Upside Down : The Global Battle Over God, Truth, and Power" by Melanie Phillips.)


IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that measures introduced to counteract 'global warming' also implement the globalists' political themes of :

- long-term global agreements (that bind national governments) and ultimately the global institutions to implement and administer them

- controlling business activity — for e.g. preventing the third runway at Heathrow, and

- intruding into and commanding the daily habits of individual citizens' everyday lives.


It is high time those peddling the lie of man-made global warming stopped misinforming the public and cynically preying upon the minds and idealism of younger generations — seeking to enlist them in the anti-democrats' usual miserable cause of inflexible, top-down, (oh so) controlling, totalitarian supra-national global government, on a new, improved, entirely false environmental prospectus.

WITHOUT THE DISTRACTION OF MYTHS AND THE NEED TO FOREVER SEEK INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT BEFORE TAKING ACTION, OUR ALL-OUT FOCUS CAN BE ON SOLVING THE REAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES THAT AFFECT AND AFFLICT MILLIONS OF BRITONS. AND DOING SO IN A WAY THAT MINIMIZES, NOT MAXIMIZES, ANY ASSOCIATED INTRUSIONS INTO PEOPLE'S DAILY LIVES.

OUR POLICIES

CIVIC ENVIRONMENT



Every Scrap Of Graffiti Removed

We will declare war on graffiti which is a declaration of war by the perpetrators on society at large. This powerful visible public expression of hostility must not be allowed to stand, to continue to intimidate law-abiding citizens and embolden other miscreant elements in the neighbourhood to similar acts of anti-social behaviour. Graffiti in particularly visible locations — such as bus and train stations — will be prioritised for removal first. We will trial surveillance of badly affected locations, particularly after graffiti has been removed to catch those seeking to re-establish their mess.


Litter and Dog Fouling

— Draconian fines are not called for, but a firm approach needs to be taken with repeat offences ultimately culminating in civic detention.


Street Clutter

— Every effort will be made to reduce the number of large ugly street signs currently cluttering up our streets —for e.g. some cyclists' 'get off bike' signs. A move to a much simpler parking regime in towns across the country would make many of the current signs unnecessary.


Footpath and Cycle-path Lighting

— Many primary access routes for pedestrians and cyclists have no lighting, giving them an unwelcome, spooky air after dark. The government could commit to provide lighting for the main access routes to towns and shopping centres through a rolling program of improvements.


Video-Cams In All Major Subways

— Whilst 'The surveillance State' is something to be guarded against, many people (particularly women) avoid using subways to avoid the stench from urine and the risk of meeting those sleeping rough and assorted undesirables. This regularly leads to dangerous attempts to cross busy roads 'above ground' and needlessly frustrates the whole point of the subways' construction and initial expense. For these reasons, many towns and cities have already installed cameras in major subways and the government should make this a new compulsory responsibility for all local councils.


Councils Prohibited From Planting Dangerous Foliage Near Footpaths and Cyclepaths

— Many footpaths and cyclepaths have overgrown foliage that intrudes directly into the path of pedestrians ans cyclists. Often the foliage has thorns on it and sometimes even huge 2" spikes! This is very dangerous during the day, a nightmare after dark — when the thorns and spikes are completely invisible — and since some of the particularly dangerous shrubs appear to have been recently planted by councils, is utterly incomprehensible. What are the councils thinking?


As a top priority for council environmental staff, we will therefore task the removal of all thorn and spike-bearing trees, shrubs and plants from all locations adjacent to footpaths and cyclepaths. Council horticultural policies will also be amended to ensure that such dangerous foliage is prohibited in locations accessed by the general public.


Council-Maintained Flowerbeds To Be Planted With Life-Enhancing, Beautiful Flowers, NOT Ugly 'Biodiversity' Weeds!

We will reverse the trend of recent years of — in the name of 'environmental sustainability' — replacing lovely cheery flowerbeds with misery-inducing ugly-collection-of-weeds-beds! Whatever the supposed benefits to wildlife of this latest act of environmental inhumanity, we will return the most prominent council-maintained areas to their former nature-celebrating, life-enhancing glory, and look to the environmentalists to come up with a less soulless solution to encouraging biodiversity in Britain's cities.



AIR QUALITY


Tighter Regulation Of Businesses Creating Unwelcome Odours

— Often the resale value of homes and the air quality for entire neighbourhoods are blighted by their proximity to chip-shop or takeaway businesses or factories with on-site furnace or processing facilities due to the odour such businesses inevitably produce (for e.g. sewerage treatment plants or rendering factories). We will introduce legislation requiring the fitting of filters or condensers in the commercial flues often installed on such premises in order to minimize this nuisance and property blight.


Tighter Restrictions on Sewage Treatment and Rendering Plants and Crematoriums

— The current levels of foul odour produced by many sewage treatment and carcass rendering plants and even from crematoriums are unacceptably high, often ruining the air quality for local residents for miles around. Legislation will therefore be brought forward to require improved odour-containment measures at all of these faciliities.


Support For Recent Government Policy Requiring A Move To Electric-Only Cars

— Recent evidence suggests a link between health and the level of traffic fumes in the air, and both city centre pedestrians and the millions of UK citizens living in town centre properties or only yards from busy roads are currently daily required to do battle with fumes from ever-present traffic flows. A largely fume-free road network would bring considerable quality-of-life benefits to everyone and be a massive boost to well-being for those living near busy roads, so The Fair Britannia Party fully supports recent government policy on moving to electric-only cars. The loss of performance this may entail for some cars is to be regretted, but this is surely a price worth paying for the benefit of significantly and permanently cleaner air for all.



NOISE POLLUTION


Noise-Based Bird-Scarers Banned

— Present widespread use of gas-powered bird-scarers by farmers is a source of regular complaint to local councils and creates an unwelcoming atmosphere for visitors to the countryside as well as for birds. Given the considerable nuisance such devices cause to practically everyone other than the farmers themselves and the ready availability of similarly effective silent alternatives, the government should stop pandering to an overly-powerful farmers' lobby and ban this widespread anti-social countryside nuisance with immediate effect.


Many airports also use noise-based bird-scaring techniques, extending even to the regular use — and nuisance to nearby properties and road users — of very loud exploding flares! Whilst aircraft safety (and the avoidance of potentially lethal bird-strike) must remain the first priority, we will review standard practise in this area and investigate whether airports could be required to move to less-intrusive, non-noise-based alternatives without compromising air safety.


Compulsory Treatment and/or Resettlement To Deal With The Nuisance of Dog Barking

— Tens of thousands of people's lives are made a misery whilst in their own home by a neighbour's dog that just keeps barking and barking or whining and whining at all hours. Complaints to the owner or the local council are often ineffective and even efforts by the owner to quieten the dog often make little difference to the problem. Those affected by this widespread nuisance are then just expected to endure it or incur all the expense and emotional upheaval of moving home. In some cases, even the ability to sell a home is hindered by the presence of an obviously noisy dog in a neighbouring property. This whole situation is most unfair and completely unacceptable.


The rights of citizens to enjoy their own homes in peace and quiet takes precedence over the rights of others to enjoy their home in peace and quiet whilst enjoying the keeping of a pet. Local councils should therefore be granted powers to require the owners of noise-nuisance pets (whether dogs, roosters, etc.) to attend training courses giving instruction on how to quieten their pet. If there has been no improvement after 2 months, then the owners should be required to keep the animal elsewhere or have the animal put-down. If the owner has not done this within 2 weeks, then the animal should be forcibly removed and the owner billed for any kennelling or vetinery expenses incurred. People have a fundamental right to enjoy their home without regular disturbance from their neighbours or their pets.


Aircraft Noise

— Demand for air travel should be allowed to expand to whatever the natural level of demand for it is. Airports should be allowed to expand to enable airlines to meet that demand in a convenient and efficient manner. Use of smaller local airfields should be encouraged wherever possible and government funds made available for runway upgrades/extensions to enable this to happen. There should be no restrictions on the number of flights permissible (except on safety grounds) but no flights should be allowed to land or take-off between the hours of 11pm-7am, enabling those who live near airports to enjoy normal sleep patterns.


Workplace Noise

— Employees subject to noise in the workplace — particularly road workers — should be entitled to the best ear protectors that money can buy. Permanent hearing loss is a terrible thing and everything possible must be done to protect the hearing of all employees.


Bin Collection Start-Times Delayed Until After 9-00am and Bins Returned To Out-of-The-Way Locations

— Goodness knows its hard enough these days to get some peace and quiet even in your own home, yet some councils currently allow bin collections to start as early as 6-00am ! What an unwelcome intrusion into people's lives — particularly as millions of people are chronically short of sleep. This significant inconvenience is also completely unnecessary.


We will introduce legislation to ensure that no bin collections can start before 9-00am, letting people get some extra sleep, and for most people, would also remove the need to put bins out the night before, cluttering up pathways and driveways.


Alternative Technology To Slab Grinders Researched

— No roadworks or building project seems to be complete these days without the unearthly racket created by the need to cut paving slabs or bricks to size. On larger projects the racket goes on for weeks. In this modern scientific age is there really no alternative ? The working conditions of contractors would also be made significantly easier if a quieter technology could be found.


Review Of Sirens On All Emergency Vehicles

— Whilst emergency vehicles will always need to have loud sirens to alert other road users of their impending approach, most sirens are so loud that for everyone outside a vehicle the sirens are so loud as to be significantly unpleasant. Given the sheer volume of police cars, ambulances and fire engines regularly driving with sirens blaring these days, for those people living on busy roads this inconvenience even impinges on the ability to relax in your own home. Permanently.


Effective Action Against The Motorbike 'Baffle-Boyz'

— who remove noise-reducing baffles from their bike exhausts for improved performance.


The police always used to take action against this form of nuisance behaviour, but in recent years – as in so many other areas – the police no longer bother. With those responsible so easily caught, we will require that effective action be taken.


All Burglar Alarms Limited To A 5 Min Maximum Duration

— Burglar alarms in both cars and empty properties presently go off at all hours and often repeatedly, causing considerable nuisance to local residents who are powerless to do anything to stop the alarm once it has been triggered. Legislation should therefore require all alarms to have a maximum duration of 5 mins with no repeat alarms possible without a manual reset. Upon verification by a council official or police officer, an alarm exceeding the 5 min maximum duration could be confiscated and its owner fined £50.




CONSUMER PRODUCTS


Toxic Chemicals : New Regulations Implementing The 'Precautionary Principle' Introduced

Many people are concerned at the potential impact of toxic chemicals in consumer products. Current regulations, although stricter than in the US, still allow many chemicals of unknown (and therefore potentially damaging carcinogen or endocrine-disrupting) effect to be used in products, and without disclosure on product packaging. We will therefore introduce regulations requiring ALL ingredients and constituent chemicals, enzymes etc used in a product's manufacture to be tested for safety BEFORE inclusion. We will make funds available for the establishment of sufficient public test laboratories to implement this policy — so that test results are not skewed by manufacturers' financial self-interest. Product labelling legislation will, however — consistent with the need to openly declare significant known allergens — NOT require disclosure of ALL chemicals used in product manufacture. This will allow manufacturers to preserve and benefit financially from the secrecy of their own individual product 'recipes' (often developed only after considerable time, skill and expense).


Existing Environmental Regulations Relaxed Where They Cause Essential Consumer Products To Become Unfit For Purpose

Recent environmental standards have been set so high for some products that they have become almost unfit for purpose and ridiculously expensive - for e.g. :

- paint that fades after a few months

- fridge freezers that become noise-nuisances in the home due to the use of eco-friendly refrigerant

- light-bulbs that produce a horrible cold light


We will conduct a review of environmental standards in these areas with a view to a possible return to more sensible prohibitions that allow for the manufacture of more useable, life-enhancing products.

LANDFILL and RECYCLING


The wasteful and disgusting spectacle of literally mountains of rubbish being buried in the ground is enough to make anyone keen to reduce the amount of rubbish going to landfill, but whilst government should share the ambition of those clamouring for waste-reduction, it should be equally determined to do so with minimal disruption to individuals' preferred lifestyles. Such a twin track approach could be implemented through the following measures :



Recycling Made Entirely Voluntary

— Draconian and intrusive compulsory recycling regimes — complete with tagged and weighed wheelie bins, fines for non-compliance and council officials with clipboards and cameras playing inquisitor to local council taxpayers daring to turn-up at their local rubbish depot with some rubbish — must be made a thing of the past.


Given the unnecessarily OTT nature of these regimes, it is hard to avoid the impression that part of their purpose is to 'teach' citizens to scuttle around at the gratuitous command of government according to the dictates of an implanted, state-sanctioned 'conscience'.

(Sadly, in this area, as in many others, councils today seem to have lost sight of the fact that they are actually there to serve the public not the other way around. The speed with which the simple collection of our household rubbish has metamorphosed from domestic commonplace to inescapable tyranny is a salutary lesson to us all on the ease with which apparently democratic, but actually largely unaccountable, government can go bad — a salutary demonstration too of the willingness of the supposedly 'voice of the consumer' broadcast media to side with the oppressor by repeatedly admonishing those members of the public daring to campaign against their local waste and recycling regimes, and to do so in documentaries ostensibly purporting to do the opposite.)



All Recyclable Items Collected In A Single Kerbside Collection

— In spite of all the emphasis on recycling, many councils are only able to recycle some items and not others and recycling collections are usually on different days to those for general household waste. The net result of this is that everyone is required to diligently grade and organise all their packaging materials everyday, keep multiple bins in the kitchen, make innumerable calendar notes of complicated collection dates and arrangements and march up and down their driveways with wheelie bins several times a week, and yet still have to take some items such as glass bottles, clothing, batteries or printer cartridges elsewhere for recycling and transport large items down the local dump at the weekend. Ridiculous.


We will introduce a nationwide system of kerbside refuse collection that enables ALL waste and ALL recyclables to be collected on a single day each week.


All Rubbish To Be Collected In A Single Wheelie Bin

— We will require councils to organize schemes so that the need for households to have 2 or 3 separate wheelie bins cluttering-up their driveways and streets is removed — for e.g. a return to a single wheelie bin emptied weekly (but with separate compartments for general refuse, recyclables and garden waste) is probably sufficient for most households.


Incredibly, in this world full of OTT instructions from government to law-abiding citizens to be safety-conscious, the norm for council bin collections is that wheelie bins are routinely left in inconvenient and dangerous locations blocking footpaths, cyclepaths and driveways. This issue, as well as that of the non-collection of bins (which for some householders – perhaps unofficially 'blacklisted' by bin crews – is a regular occurrence), is of very long standing and needs to be robustly addressed by local councils in an effective way.


We will therefore launch a fundamental review of established internal council procedures in this area and, at a minimum, implement the following changes :


  • Financially incentivise council managers with performance-related pay to encourage them to EFFECTIVELY confront the 'burly bin boyz' about their failure (or point-blank refusal!) to simply do the job for which they are paid.
  • Council managers will be REQUIRED to dismiss any member of refuse collection staff with a track record of non-collection of bins — or be dismissed themselves.
  • Financially incentivise refuse-collection staff to do the job for which they are paid by making deductions from pay for EVERY bin left unemptied and EVERY bin returned to a dangerous or inconsiderate location.

All Residential and Business Waste Taken To Landfill Should Be Free of Charge

— Whilst the aim of reducing the amount of waste going to landfill is laudable, the policy of charging people to take rubbish to landfill has caused a big increase in fly-tipping. This disastrous policy should therefore be reversed, allowing individuals and businesses alike to take all rubbish to landfill free of charge. Large, meaningful fines and civic detention tariffs should await anyone continuing to fly-tip. Similar to measures on other offences, members of the public could be paid rewards for obtaining evidence against fly-tippers.


At-Depot Sorting of General Household Waste

— All rubbish should be sifted for any possible recyclable material upon arrival at the rubbish depot. The government should also invest heavily in research and technology to find new ways to separate-out recyclable materials from general rubbish and how to actually re-use recyclables once recovered.


New Strict Packaging Laws On All Products

— Manufacturers should be required to significantly reduce the amount of packaging on products and only be permitted to use recyclable packaging materials.


Deposits Paid For The Return of New or Used Large Recyclable Items

— New and used cookers, fridges, computers, microwaves, heaters, hifis and vacuum cleaners could all be made subject to an old pop-bottle-style deposit at the point of sale which would be refunded when the item was presented for recycling (either at kerbside or at a depot).


Landfill Waste Further Reduced By The Use of Incinerators With Multiple Filters

— Burning the residual waste can significantly reduce the volume going to landfill. The government should therefore ensure that each council area has access to a state of the art incinerator capable of meeting local demand and fitted with multiple arrays of baffles and filters to remove hazardous fumes. To avoid the possibility of overcapacity, feasibility studies should be made into smaller-scale, local incinerators in some areas. Each incinerator should be required to operate almost entirely odour-free to prevent smells drifting for miles around.

FARMING PRACTICES


GM Crops Controlled and GM Products Clearly Labelled

— To protect biodiversity and human and animal health, government should always adopt the 'precautionary principle' with regard to any alleged benefits of new technologies such as genetic modification.

We will not permit the growing of GM crops in quantity until proper research has been conducted into their safety and their effects on wildlife. Categorical assurances presently given by the industry on these points are without proper foundation as the thorough medium-term testing has simply not been done.


To allow consumers to make up their own minds about GM foods, all produce sold in this country containing GM products — whether imported or home-grown — should be required to clearly display the fact with a recognisable symbol and legibly-sized print on the packaging.


Farming Techniques Made More Animal and Nature-Friendly

— Whilst many of the dangers of the overuse of pesticides and chemicals are probably overstated and the benefits of organic farming over-stated, a wide-ranging science-based review of all current farming practices should be conducted to determine whether a move to a more organic approach might prove beneficial to the environment, wildlife or consumers.


Fish Farming Reviewed

— A thorough review of river, loch and estuary fish farms should be conducted to see whether they should be replaced with off-shore deepwater fish farms.



WATER SUPPLY


West-to-East Aqueduct Started

— In spite of the relatively high rainfall experienced by many parts of the UK, many areas remain only a dry spell away from water rationing through hosepipe bans etc. The government should therefore commit to the investment needed for the construction of the long overdue west-east aqueduct necessary to transfer surplus rainfall from the west of the country to the drier southern and eastern regions.


Subsidised State of the Art In-Home Water Filters Made Available

— As well as removing the usual impurities, contaminants and chlorine, the filters should be capable of removing all traces of female contraceptive hormones that currently remain in the water supply even after treatment, chlorination and filtering. The filters to be available at cheap and subsidised cost to all homes.


All Fluoridation of Water Supplies Stopped

— The water supply in some parts of the country is still fluoridated. Due to the dubious benefits for improved dental health in this age of near-universal use of fluorine toothpaste and the possible side effects in susceptible individuals, all fluoridation should be stopped.


All Sewerage Treated Prior To Discharge

— Legislation should require that all sewerage is subject to significant treatment prior to discharge, even into the sea.


Tough Sanctions On Illegal Discharges Into Water Courses

— Tough sanctions should be applied to companies and farms pumping or dumping illegal levels of waste into water courses.


Water-Efficient Toilet Cisterns Made Compulsory

— A significant proportion of domestic water use is attributable to simply flushing the toilet. The government could therefore encourage greater water efficiency by making variable-flush water-efficient cisterns compulsory in new-build properties and rented accommodation and a design requirement for cistern manufacturers.



BEAUTY SPOTS and BEACHES


Beauty Spots, Woods, Rivers and Lakes To Have A Presumption of A Right To Roam

— Every effort should be made to ensure the fullest possible access and enjoyment of local and national beauty spots for members of the general public — such places are real 'sanity-savers' for many people and a marvellous literal breath of fresh air for those forced to live in cheap city centre accommodation. The presumption should always be for the general public to be granted a general right to roam in such areas.


Beaches Cleared of All Debris and Untreated Sewage

— As an island nation, Britain is blessed with hundreds of miles of beaches which are a vital part of our national heritage. It has been nothing short of a scandal that in recent years families with young children have been expected to make use of beaches littered with assorted debris and the remains of untreated sewage and swim in sea water teeming with sewage-borne bacteria whilst hoping to avoid the innumerable pieces of rusty metal and broken beer bottles underfoot.


Our reforms will therefore require all sewage to undergo increased levels of treatment prior to discharge into the sea, and where necessary, pipework to sewage outfalls lengthened so that discharge is moved much further out to sea. Legislation should also require water company treatment plants to construct sufficient reliable fail-safe back-up infrastructure to reduce the number of 'pollution incidents' to near zero — with heavy fines for all avoidable offences.


Local councils should be charged with the responsibility of conducting regular sweeps of local beaches to ensure that every scrap of debris is removed from beaches — above and below the surface and from the first 50yds out to sea.