'Disgusting' beach litter leaves people upset

'Disgusting' beach litter leaves people upsetJust nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleAlex Dunlop,in CromerandNeve Gordon-FarleighAlex Dunlop/BBC/Julia JamesJill Boyle said she could not understand why people would come to enjoy the beauty of north Norfolk and leave their rubbish behindAnger about the "disgusting" scenes at a beach following a busy bank holiday weekend has sparked calls for people to take responsibility for their litter.After a weekend when temperatures surpassed 30C (86F), extra clean-ups were carried out at Cromer in Norfolk on Tuesday that took up to 26 hours.Jill Boyle, Liberal Democrat councillor for the town, said: "I think it's disgusting. I just don't understand why they would do it."They come to enjoy the beauty of north Norfolk, why would you wish to decimate it? It's just beyond me."North Norfolk District Council said additional bins had been placed around the beach in anticipation of high visitor numbers.In all the years Boyle has lived in Cromer, she said she had never seen the beach packed with so many people, with concerned friends and residents sending her pictures and videos of the litter left behind."I was cross," she said. "This is a Blue Flag beach, it's just awful to think people with their children, dogs, the wildlife, have got to be put aside for people who don't care."How can you come onto a clean beach and just walk off and think to leave it there? I just don't understand the mentality."Julia JamesBoyle said while the council put extra bins in place, they could not predict the "chaos" that happened last weekendShe said if bins were full, people could have left waste by the sides of the bins instead of scattered across the sand.Boyle believes the council did everything it could and could not "predict [the] chaos" like the scenes on Monday. She said: "[Visitors] can carry the bags home, they can carry the bags t...