Torness workers carry out local beach clean
A group of workers from Torness power station came together recently to carry out a beach clean.
Staff from the Environmental Safety and Quality Management Groups spent the morning picking up litter at Thorntonloch beach.
Joined by the station’s Wildlife Manager, the team collected a staggering 20 bags of rubbish from the beach in just 90 minutes.
The rubbish collected included nets, plastic bottles, polystyrene foam, textiles, tyres, lobster traps, metal, and rope.
Environmental Safety Engineers Heather Gore and Clare Galloway arranged the beach clean.
Clare Galloway said: “It was great to see staff volunteer to help but disheartening to see the volume of rubbish collected on such a beautiful strip of coastline in such a short amount of time.
“The litter we collected had the potential to cause harm to marine life. Hopefully by removing it we will help to improve the health of the local ecosystem and create a more pleasant local environment for all beach users.”
Thorntonloch, which is just a short walk from the power station, is a beautiful sandy beach popular for fishing, surfing and spotting wildlife.
From the beach you can access the John Muir Link which runs from Dunbar to Cockburnspath and see many fascinating geological features such as the sandstone arches and waterfall at Bilsdean.
The beach cleaning work was carried out through EDF Energy’s ‘Helping Hands’ scheme which allows staff to take two paid days off a year to help out in the local community or an environmental cause.
About EDF
EDF is driving the transition towards An Electric Britain – a secure, affordable, low-carbon future for everyone. As Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity, we are investing more than £100 million weekly in Britain’s electricity infrastructure. We supply millions of customers with electricity and help homes and businesses switch to electricity for heating, transport and industrial processes.
We operate five nuclear power stations and more than 35 onshore wind farms and three offshore wind farms. Since 2009, EDF has invested almost £9 billion in the nuclear fleet to improve reliability and extend station lifetimes. The five generating stations currently supply about 12% of the UK’s electricity demand.
EDF is building the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C. We are a minority investor (12.5%) in and major supplier to a replica plant at Sizewell C in Suffolk. Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C will provide low carbon electricity to meet 14% of UK demand and power around 12 million homes. EDF Group companies Framatome and Arabelle Solutions have a presence in the UK and manufacture critical equipment such as reactor pressure vessels and turbines.
EDF is enabling its 5 million customers, both in business and at home, to choose electric solutions that save cash and carbon, whether it is buying an electric car, generating and storing electricity, selling energy back to the grid or installing solar panels or a heat pump. In 2025, EDF’s Customers business was ranked as one of the Sunday Times’s Best Place to Work.
It is also one of the UK’s leading developers of renewable energy through EDF power solutions UK and Ireland. We have more than 2GW of renewable generation in operation and over 10GW in construction, planning and development across a range of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar and battery storage.
We are one of the largest suppliers to British business and a leading supplier of innovative energy solutions that are helping businesses become more energy independent. In addition, the company’s energy services business, Dalkia, one of the UK and Ireland’s largest technical service providers.
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