Edition 31
July - August 2018
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FOURTH ORGANISED BEACH CLEAN UP
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The Final Straw Solent's 4th organised Beach Clean at The Ferry Boat Inn, Hayling Island in Association with Surfers Against Sewage
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One hundred and eight volunteers collected over a hundred bags of litter and micro-plastics The Final Straw Solent was thrilled to welcome a hundred and eight amazing volunteers from all areas of the Solent to their fourth big beach clean at the Ferry Boat Inn, Hayling Island on Friday, 4th May, was held in conjunction with Surfers Against Sewage. Volunteers came ready for action, armed with litter pickers and gloves ready to make a difference to this
beautiful length of coast line. Friends and family, young and old, helped to remove a huge amount of litter and plastic debris on the beach front.What they collected was shocking. Recent reports had suggested that the area had high levels of micro-plastic, small fragments and pieces of plastic less than 5mm long that are often the result
of large pieces of plastic that have been broken up. The campaign also expected to see lots of ‘Nurdles’ - tiny bits of plastic, about the size of a lentil, that are used in the manufacture of plastic items and get washed out of factories into sewers. Collecting these tiny pieces of plastic is important work, but it is not an easy task… (contd on page two)
We are encouraging all local businesses to get in touch with us to see how your business can join the Final Straw Solent, and help reduce your singleuse plastics consumption and create change and all along the Solent. Trying to avert and reduce the plastics crisis can all feel a bit overwhelming, so at the Final Straw Solent we have decided that we need to focus on the small local changes that can create global change. Here are four easy steps that everyone can take: • REFUSE PLASTIC STRAWS - Most people do not need a straw, and if you do then why not use a paper, wheat or bamboo straw or reusable metal one. If you are offered a straw in a cafe, bar or restaurant, just say ‘no thanks!’. • USE REUSABLE BAGS - Plastic bags are not
very strong anyway and can get blown into the countryside, waterways or the sea so easily. There are loads of interesting, cool, fun or pretty reusable fabric shopping bags around, so why not take one of those with you every time you go shopping, rather than asking for a plastic one? • USE REUSABLE WATER BOTTLES Single-use plastic bottles are expensive to produce, use up valuable natural resources to make and transport and create mountains and mountains of waste once we’ve gulped down the contents. And re-cycling’s not the answer either, here in the UK an estimated 800 plastic bottles a MINUTE are either ending up in landfill or as litter, which will too often make its way into our waterways and out to sea. We can all help with this by purchasing a re-usable water bottle.
• INVEST IN A REUSABLE COFFEE CUP In the UK, we use and dispose of seven MILLION coffee cups a day. Only 1% are recycled! Get yourself a good reusable cup, if you are a regular ‘take-out coffee’ person it will make a big difference. Put simply, if it’s plastic or wrapped in plastic, think about viable alternatives. Refuse that straw and any other unnecessary plastic, spread the word and help save our planet! We hope that people will follow this campaign with earnest and join us for our next organised beach cleans, and that it will have a positive impact on our environment and change peoples’ views on their consumption of single-use plastic. Please find the Final Straw Solent at www.finalstrawsolent.org
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