Guernsey beach cleans and marine litter
Marine debris washes up on the Guernsey shore regularly. Much of it is from ships including fishing boats. Storms bring up broken crab and lobster pots. Beach cleaners often find an odd shoe, cigarette lighters, plastic polymer fishing rope, twine, and line, pieces of polystyrene and insulation foam, plastic bags and plastic bottles, and thousands of pieces of hard plastic including disposable plastic cutlery, plastic bottle tops and plastic toys.
Frayed blue plastic tarpaulin picked up recently and placed behind the fence at Petit Port
This frayed mass of plastic from a tarpaulin was placed behind the fence at the top of the shore at Petit Port prior to my arrival on 11th January. It had been removed from the shore in the previous days.
The seaweed strand lines of the Petit Port shore were littered with short lengths of plastic fibres from this blue tarpaulin.
A piece of this blue tarpaulin was discovered trapped under a boulder to the west of the beach on 11th January 2020.
On 14th January two large pieces of tarpaulin were spotted in a large raft of seaweed floating between the headlands forming the bay. These were brought into the shore by wind and tide and deposited on two separate seaweed strand lines.
Another smaller piece of blue tarpaulin washed in on 15th January 2020.
Small threads of tarpaulin continue to be entangled with seaweed in the strand lines on the Petit Port sea shore.
File No. 110120 6344
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Petit Port beach clean litterbehind fenceblue mesh bagfrayed net bagfrom behind fencemarine plastic litternylon blue bagocean debris
