{"id":38162,"title":"Beach Clean. Removing microplastics from the beach.","description":"Microplastics and other rubbish found on our beaches.","content":"<p>A simple and effective method the Fistral Beach Clean group use to remove microplastic from the strand line is by using small bags made from tulle. We simply brush plastic pieces and sand into a pile, then scoop the pile into bag, hold it closed, give the bag a good shake, the sand falls out leaving behind rubbish and organic material.<\/p><p>Analysing the contents of two bags from a beach clean held last winter revealed a mix of primarily organic material and plastic pieces.<\/p><p>Nurdles and plastic pallets were abundant, and the volume and variety of small plastic pieces indicative of how items made from plastic break down over time. A surprise was the amount of polystyrene type pieces. Maybe these were once food containers or from a cheap broken body board.<\/p><p>The contents of the bags were collected over a relatively small area of Fistral Beach. The volume of plastic pieces in the strand lines, buried in the sand and floating in the waters around the UK must be staggering.<\/p><p>Preventing nurdles and plastic pallets, and other plastic pollution entering our oceans is critical. At a beach clean level collecting what we can removes this form of pollution out of the marine and coastal environments.<\/p><p>More info on Fistral Beach Clean can be found on our Facebook <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fistralbeachclean\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>page<\/u><\/a>.<br \/>.<br \/>.<br \/><img src=\"https:\/\/images.teemill.com\/pbigcgsrwpafg2c9aepeg2lt6iaai8wczp0hqs9kajekyao8.jpeg.jpeg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" alt=\"pbigcgsrwpafg2c9aepeg2lt6iaai8wczp0hqs9kajekyao8.jpeg.jpeg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" \/>.<\/p><p><img src=\"https:\/\/images.teemill.com\/wmggp67kapeuzvicufvrqtvrbkyfqmtzvuyveeqbcb7nzjya.jpeg.jpeg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" alt=\"wmggp67kapeuzvicufvrqtvrbkyfqmtzvuyveeqbcb7nzjya.jpeg.jpeg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" \/>.<\/p><p><img src=\"https:\/\/images.teemill.com\/ekxwgkkyp6jwosekwypzxiu9jjdg8tdt2hhhurr0g2ib66yi.jpeg.jpeg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" alt=\"ekxwgkkyp6jwosekwypzxiu9jjdg8tdt2hhhurr0g2ib66yi.jpeg.jpeg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" \/>.<\/p><p><img src=\"https:\/\/images.teemill.com\/wwlbpk48rtoghbmgxktbxltk9gsxmdhutasuljzb2pkzeapu.jpeg.jpeg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" alt=\"wwlbpk48rtoghbmgxktbxltk9gsxmdhutasuljzb2pkzeapu.jpeg.jpeg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" \/>.<\/p><p><img src=\"https:\/\/images.teemill.com\/eezdzdbl5nqturglk146ukxnxjtrpf1nmp6kvpzwul2x5vpb.jpeg.jpeg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" alt=\"eezdzdbl5nqturglk146ukxnxjtrpf1nmp6kvpzwul2x5vpb.jpeg.jpeg?w=1140&amp;v=2\" \/>.<\/p><p>Images copyright inkydeep. 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