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Marine Scotland Staff Clean Up: 22 January 2015

January 26, 2016 by Marine Directorate Communications No Comments | Category Marine Directorate general, Marine Directorate Science, Marine Litter

There have been a couple of clean-ups since Christmas-time. Danny took to the beach on his own for the first one and Paul Stainer joined in for last week’s trip down to the shore; where 152 items were collected in 20 minutes. We are now into our second year of litter-picking and I’m sure Danny will be rounding up more helpers in the forthcoming weeks to keep up the good work.

Pictured to the right is some of the rubbish (loads of plastic bottles, hard hats, lots and lots of plastic rubbish) brought down the River Dee following the recent flooding.

Latest total stats:

• Bottles and cans recycled = 4,171;
• Full bin bags of waste = 184, and
• Person effort collecting = 14,940 minutes, or 249 hours.

The image below show one of several landslips along the roadside, down to the shore, that have seen part of the road closed to cars.

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