More than 150 bags of rubbish containing nitrous oxide, or “laughing gas” as it is widely known, canisters and balloons have been picked up off Brighton Beach following a major Pride event at the weekend.
Described by volunteers cleaning up as the most amount of nitrous oxide canisters in one place, Amy Gibson, a member of Ocean’s 8, told the BBC that you couldn’t even see the beach in places.
“Normally we find around 20 bags’ worth of rubbish after a weekend or an event, but we’ve collected 10 times that amount in the first two hours of today’s clean,” she said.
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