Beach Buddies has asked people to be respectful after 13 large bags full of used cat litter were left in one of its bins at Smeale in Andreas.
The charity left 11 bags of the cat litter outside the bin in the hope that the person(s) responsible would “get the message”.
This follows a pattern in recent months of large amounts of rubbish which is clearly domestics from people’s homes also being dumped into the Beach Buddies bins.
A spokesman for Beach Buddies said: “The bags of cat litter waste were first spotted at the beginning of September and we deliberately took them out of our bin and left them alongside the bin, to send a message that it’s not the job of Beach Buddies to dispose of items such as used cat litter – or any other domestic household items.
“We hoped that this would make the person who dumped the cat litter in our bin realise that this is not what Beach Buddies does – we want people to use our bins to dispose of rubbish found on beaches. It’s definitely not for waste cat litter or domestic rubbish of any sort.
“But now that more bags of cat litter waste have been placed in the same bin then we have got to draw a line under this and make a public statement to stop this happening, not just at Smeale, but in any of the 50+ bins we empty every week all around the Island’s coastline.
“We have left the 13 bags oif waste cat litter outside our bin at Smeale. We expect them to be removed by the person who left them there as soon as possible.”
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