Hi there and welcome to the Ecover Blue Mile

The UK’s wettest mass-participation event designed to immerse you in nature and protect me… Together with our very generous partner Ecover and our amazing charity, the Marine Conservation Society who we call MCS, we’d like to encourage you to join us for a swim, or if you really fancy it, a kayak or one of these new fangled stand up thingys…in the Ecover Blue Mile 2013 and raise some serious cash to help me…and of course our seas, shores and wildlife

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  • MCS Plastics 3-©Sarah Hymes/MCS

    Why you should become a Blue Miler…

    May 14, 2013

    The results of the Marine Conservation Society’s annual Beachwatch Big Weekend beach clean in September 2012 makes for grim reading. Here are the key facts: On 14-17 September 2012 almost 240 beaches around the UK were cleaned by over 3,500

  • Maya-Plass

    A Day of Blue Activities for Schools

    May 10, 2013

    BBC Springwatch presenter Maya Plass is the latest recruit to the Ecover Blue Mile team. Maya, who lives in the South Hams, has joined the Plymouth-based organisation as ambassador for the three-day Ecover Schools Blue Mile event taking place at

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