Organisational issues plagued the beach clean up today.

Two women cleaned all the Rena fuel oil that came ashore at Mount Maunganui this morning in two hours – while Fulton Hogan staff called in to do the job stood and watched.

Lana and Candice cleaned up the main beach today.

'They were so embarrassed,” says Lana Maguinness.

'They said they were waiting for their bosses to tell them what to do.”

It took Lana and Candice Benson about two hours to clean up the oil on the main beach.

They took their collection to the top of the beach where it was picked up by a passing tractor and trailer.

At Surf Road, Omanu, there was a Rotorua fire communications truck parked in the car park. The grumpy Rotorua fire fighter watching over says no-one's in charge of the clean-up, no-one knows what is happening and the entire operation is one big cluster ****.

Meanwhile, pictures are appearing on Facebook pages of more significant amounts of oil coming ashore in Papamoa East.

The Bay of Plenty Regional Council is repeating its call for people to stay off the beaches.

The men in the trailer were picking up bags of oil and sand.

The Rena oil spill response team is receiving reports that people are 'playing” with oil and attempting to clean it up.

Oil is not only toxic, but people doing this risk spreading the oil further and creating more harm to their local environment.

Anyone wishing to help the oil recovery effort or report oil should contact 0800 645 774.

People 'playing” with oil are also risk spreading it to their homes and other areas.

Pet owners are also urged to keep their animals off the beach.

Anyone concerned their pet may have been affected by oil should contact their local vet.

Sightings of any oiled wildlife should be reported to 0800 333 771.

This man was talking samples of the oil.