Volunteers are working to remove one tonne of trash from Bermuda waters during a month-long clean-up.

Karen Plianthos, founder of the Cash Trash Bash campaign, and others have pulled trash from the island’s coast and ocean daily since August 5, and hope to collect 2,240 pounds by September 5.

One pound of garbage is collected for each dollar raised during the campaign, and almost 15,000 have been removed from Bermuda’s marine environment since the venture began in 2015.

Funds raised this year will benefit the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute and The Eternal Forest charity, which provides natural burials and accessible woodland in Wales.

A BUEI spokeswoman said: “Together, working with community partners like Ms Plianthos and her family, we are developing future generations of environmental stewards and ocean advocates.”

Ms Plianthos said: “Education, whether it be on the state of our oceans or what you as an individual can do to help, is so incredibly important.

“Ultimately, I hope that I can inspire others to do something that is going to shift us towards a better environmental future for our children.”

Karla Lacey, BUEI chief executive, said the organisation’s role “is to connect learning and doing so the ocean around Bermuda is understood, loved and protected”.

She added: “The more we learn about our ocean and the role each one of us can play in protecting it, the more hope there will be for the future.”

Visit buei.bm/join-support or gofundme.com/f/cash-trash-bash-vii to donate or learn more about the clean-up.