Volunteers from the Allerdale Borough Council have ended a wide scale beach clean up project.

The amount of waste picked up by the team was roughly 45 kilograms in mass, and was reportedly all consisting of human discarded waste.

A spokesperson for the Allerdale Borough Council said: "Here endeth the Beach Clean Trilogy.

"45kg of human discarded waste picked up this morning along the foreshore of Maryport Coastal Park.

"An enthusiastic team endured the windy conditions, but sadly discovered the remains of a porpoise.

"If you are being helpful and bagging litter, please go one step further and take it to the car park bins for Tivoli to remove.

"Left on the beach is no help."

According to data from PlasticOceans, OceanCrusaders, EarthDay, SAS, EcoWatch and GlobalCitizen an estimated eight million tons of plastic enters our oceans every year.

There are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic waste estimated to be in our oceans.

269,000 tons float, 4 billion microfibres per kilometres squared dwell below the surface.

70 per cent of our debris sinks into the ocean's ecosystem, 15 per cent floats, and 15 per cent lands on our beaches.

Plastic in the ocean is particularly hazardous to fish, mammals, and sea life in general because they absorb toxins and chemicals from other forms of water pollution to become even more dangerous to the animals ingesting them.