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.
Litter collected from the shore at Pleinmont on 22nd February 2018
To the south of the Tables des Pions or The Fairy Ring there's an accessible small rocky sea shore that faces Hanois Lighthouse.
It is located on south-west tip of Guernsey.
Unfortunately, it is known for receiving large amounts of polystyrene and foam pieces.
On 22 February I did a rapid sea shore litter collection.
The polystyrene and foam pieces in the image represents only a small quantity of what remains at the top of the shore some of which is trapped under stones.
Each storm brings more polystyrene and foam pieces onto the sea shore at this location.
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