Rosie Linane, 5, with some of the empty bottles which she and her father, James, collected from Cobo on Sunday afternoon when they went for a walk. (Picture by James Linane, 0581556)

JAMES LINANE and daughter Rosie took matters into their own hands when they saw the state of Cobo beach on Sunday afternoon.

Mr Linane, 40, and his five-year-old were so worried about the amount of glass and litter on the popular west-coast beach, that they collected it and took it to the recycling bins.

They were alerted to the problem by a pile of glass bottles at the bottom of the slipway. ‘Some of them were broken so we decided to pick them up. It’s easier to pick up a whole bottle than try and get the glass out of their feet later,’ said Mr Linane.

As they carried on, they found dozens of beer cans and both glass and plastic bottles strewn along the sand. They went to the shop to ask for carrier bags in which to collect the rubbish. ‘As we went along the beach, there was more and more. We decided to concentrate on the glass, because there was so much to carry,’ he said.

• Rockmount Hotel proprietor David Nussbaumer declined to comment at this time.