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.
Petit Port beach litter collected on 7th October 2020
One Otrivin plastic bottle was found in a pile of seaweed in a cleft on the eastern side of Petit Port beach.
Nurdles were abundant on gravel and pebbles on the eastern side of the shore above the band of boulders that runs across the beach.
One of the plastic bottles has Asian writing on the label. Polystyrene pieces were numerous. Many were too small to spend time collecting. There were at the top of the shore and in a cave in the north-east corner of the beach.
File No. 071020 3512
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