Volunteers will be out this weekend helping to clean up the seas around Bermuda as part of a big drive Keep Bermuda Beautiful to keep the Island – beautiful.

On Saturday KBB is having its annual marine clean-up day and this year it will form part of a worldwide initiative aimed at cleaning up the oceans co-ordinated by Ocean Conservancy, a global environmental organisation.

KBB Executive Director Richard Lathan said that they will be keeping a track of the clean-ups to record where Bermuda stands globally by filling out data cards which will be submitted to Ocean Conservancy.

KBB volunteer Robyn Larkin, who is also the Education Supervisor at Dolphin Quest, will be tabulating the cards and said: "This will give us a snapshot of the litter that impacts on our marine environment."

There are currently 24 sites across the Island targeted as needing cleaning up, with teams signed up for 17.

"Some people may want to do their own thing," says Mr. Lathan. "We can coordinate the trucks if they let us know."

Many corporate organisations including Butterfield and Vallis, Northland's Primary, Capital G are volunteering to help with the clean ups.

Some interested teams and individuals will be conducting clean-ups right through until the middle of October and KBB will be using the data cards for those events as well.

The public is invited to join the teams at the sites or bring their own teams to the ones that have not been signed on.

Additional trash bags and gloves can be collected on the day from the Mangrove Bay, Jews Bay, Penhurst dock, Grace church and St David's Dock. The clean-ups will start at 9 a.m. and will continue until late afternoon.

The KBB office will be manned until noon on the day and the phone will be manned all day.

Interested people can contact KBB at 295 5142 or kbb@northrock.bm.

Ocean Conservancy promotes healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems and opposes practices that threaten ocean life and human life.

Through research, education, and science-based advocacy, it "informs, inspires, and empowers people to speak and act on behalf of the oceans".

In all its work, Ocean Conservancy strives to be the world's foremost advocate for the oceans.