Newsletter Issue 10 - Summer 2017 Newsletter Issue 10 - Summer 2017
Hello & Welcome to the Summer 2017 edition of Marine Litter Watch Hello & Welcome by Susan Cramer, Marine and Fisheries Division, DAERA Read More...
Thank you to everyone who has The Fish Cemetery plastic waste destroys the eco-system Updates contributed by sending articles, news Our cover image is of an installation of aquatic organisms and results in Read More... and updates. Looking at the events called the “Fish Cemetery”. The image harmful effects to marine life. The table an interesting and productive was taken by a DAERA colleague message is the same the world over; News summer lies ahead. who recently visited Cochin in the we must work together to address the Read More... Indian State of Kerala. The installation problem of marine litter. There are some great events to is a collaboration between the Coastwatch 2016 Annual participate in and also exciting Central Marine Fisheries Research Report developments at a local, national and Institute and the Kochi and Cochin Read More... international level. These reflect the Shipyard Limited. The objective of Beer tin on the sea bed growing recognition that marine litter the installation is to remind people is a serious pressure on the marine that the world is fast approaching a Litter survey environment and a major global scenario in which non-biodegradable around Portaferry in Strangford Lough environmental concern. Read More...
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Events Table key dates for your diary Read More... Glenarm Beach Clean May 2016 continued 2 Newsletter Issue 10 - Summer 2017
Hello & Welcome continued Article Summary Portaferry since September 2016. Hello & Welcome This edition focuses on the clean-up Gwen reports on the data she has Read More... captured and identifies practical Plastic Challenge and data capture activities that people are taking around the coast. solutions to address the problem. Inspired by Kate Wilson’s article in the Updates Summer 2016 edition of Marine Litter Read More... Elaine Smith, from Mid and East Watch, a colleague and I undertook Antrim Borough Council describes the Marine Conservation’s Plastic how council is working with News Challenge 2017 in June. The Challenge volunteers to address the problem of Read More... really highlighted how dependent marine litter in Larne Lough around we are on plastic and also how time the mouth of the River Inver. consuming it is to live without it. Coastwatch 2016 Annual Report In spite of our best Read More... efforts we were unable to totally Litter survey eliminate plastic. around Portaferry in Strangford Lough However, we greatly Read More... reduced our usage, The magazine opens with an with measures like article by Karin Dubsky who is replacing ziplock bags Managing litter pollution the international coordinator for with Tupperware and in Larne Lough Coastwatch. Coastwatch undertakes using reusable coffee Read More... an annual survey of biodiversity and cups instead of the litter on the island of Ireland. The carry-out versions. I Coastwatch Survey is now in its 30th Adopt A Spot- Rathlin Adopt a Spot bought a pasta maker year and Karin reports on results and Would you be interested in adopting Read More... which helped a lot. It observations from the 2016 Survey. a spot? Jodie McAneaney, from was truly a challenging month! I also Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful went to St Georges market to buy fruit Events Table Gwen Moncoiffé, a volunteer litter describes how you can join Adopt A and vegetables. key dates for your diary picker, describes the monthly clean- Spot volunteers and help to revitalise Read More... ups she has carried out north of communities across Northern Ireland.
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DAERA Marine and Ban on microbeads environment and will apply to solid Hello & Welcome microplastic ingredients <5mm in size Read More... Fisheries Division in every dimension. These are used as Update Over 400 responses were received to the consultation on proposals to ban an ingredients in rinse-off cosmetics Updates and personal care products including; Skerries and Causeway Coast SAC the use of micro beads in cosmetics Read More... and personal care products in the exfoliating scrubs, shower gels and Site Management Plan toothpastes. Within DAERA Marine and Fisheries UK. The ban is good news for the News Division work is continuing to help Read More... address the problem of marine litter. Staff in our Marine Conservation Coastwatch 2016 Annual and Reporting Team are looking Report at ways to address marine litter via Read More... the draft Management Plan for the Skerries and Causeway Special Area of Conservation. We are building on Litter survey work already undertaken through around Portaferry in Strangford Lough the Rathlin Island European Marine Read More... Site Management Group. Rathlin Island is protected as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC), Special Protection Managing litter pollution Area and in December 2016 was in Larne Lough designated as a Marine Conservation Read More... Zone. In July 2016 DAERA staff assessed the extent of marine litter in Adopt a Spot the Rathlin area, noting the location of Read More... large items of metal and plastic. This is a rocky reef, one of the designated features of the SAC Events Table key dates for your diary Read More... continued 4 Newsletter Issue 10 - Summer 2017
Updates continued Mysterious blue balls rubber and should degrade in the Hello & Welcome on the North Down marine environment. Read More... Response to Consultation Shore The majority of responses to the AES take the system out of service Updates consultation were supportive of the We passed the balls to colleagues Read More... In March 2017 in the Industrial Pollution and we received Radiochemical Inspectorate team who a call from a informed AES, the operator of Kilroot News gentleman Power Station about the issue. AES Read More... who lives in the responded promptly to our request Carnalea area who had noticed small, and agreed to investigate whether Coastwatch 2016 Annual bright blue, sponge balls appearing the Taprogge balls originated from Report on the coast. He kindly delivered the the plant. AES took the system out Read More... balls to our premises in Belfast. A of service as a precaution until the colleague did a Google search which results of the investigation were Image courtesy of Alliance of the Great suggested that these were Taprogge complete. Litter survey Lakes balls. around Portaferry in Strangford Lough The system was cleaned and had its ban. However, there were mixed Read More... Taprogge balls valves replaced. It has since been opinions on whether the ban should Taprogge balls are used in the returned to service. be extended to other products. A copy condenser cleaning system of power Managing litter pollution of the Government Response is now stations. The balls are made of natural Partnership between AES and in Larne Lough available from our website. Ulster Wildlife Read More... As reported in this and previous Legislation in Northern Ireland issues of Marine Litter Watch, AES has DAERA is working to develop legislation Adopt a Spot a long-term partnership with Ulster under Article 32 of the Waste and Read More... Wildlife and conducts quarterly beach Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) cleans as part of the ‘Adopt a Spot’ Order 1997 to establish the ban in initiative run by Keep Northern Ireland Events Table Northern Ireland. We anticipate that this Beautiful. key dates for your diary will be consulted on later in 2017. Read More... Kilroot beach Clean
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News discovered they had chewed their way Hello & Welcome through the plastic. Read More...
Scientific eXXpedition Follow up test visits Belfast on 15th Updates In a follow up test, run in conjunction Read More... August with Cambridge University, 100 wax worms were placed in a plastic bag. After 40 minutes holes appeared and News over 12 hours 92 micrograms of plastic Read More... Putting out the trawl was consumed and the polymer An all female team of volunteers chains within the plastic were broken Coastwatch 2016 Annual plans to set sail from Plymouth on Cafe and Odyssey Pavilion to discuss down. Report 7th August 2017 in a 72 foot yacht the presence of plastics and other Read More... called Sea Dragon. The volunteer toxins in the seas; how they get there crew includes scientists, artists, and the harm they do to the marine Litter survey photographers, educators, business environment and ultimately everyone. around Portaferry in Strangford Lough women and psychologists. Wax moth caterpillar- Image courtesy of Read More... Wax moth could help Andrew Tyzack Purpose dispose of plastic waste The purpose of the eXXpedition is to Managing litter pollution undertake a scientific survey in the Next Steps in Larne Lough An accidental discovery by Spanish waters around the UK and to engage The next step will be identifying the Read More... with local communities about the scientist and bee keeper, Dr. Feerica molecular process by which the larvae presence of plastic pollution and other Bertocchini, could revolutionise the break down plastic and attempting to toxins in the sea. way we dispose of plastic waste. isolate the enzyme responsible. Adopt a Spot Dr. Bertoccini found some wax moth Currently around 38% of discarded Read More... 15th August: A day of activities larvae in one of her hives. These larvae waste in Europe ends up in landfill The Sea Dragon will be berthed in eat honey and infest beehives. sites. Perhaps this research could help Events Table Dr. Bertocchini removed the larvae Belfast from 14th to 16th August. The reduce this figure? key dates for your diary volunteers plan a day of activities on and placed them in a plastic bag. Read More... 15th August. Join the crew in the Dock When she next looked at the bag she continued 6 Newsletter Issue 10 - Summer 2017
News continued Education, enforcement and caused by consumers who dispose Hello & Welcome infrastructure of cotton buds inappropriately. This Read More... The Strategy is built around three is in spite of ‘Do Not Flush’ labelling, Litter Strategy for broad themes of education, public education campaigns like Updates England enforcement and infrastructure. It “Bag It and Bin It” and improved Read More... also contains a section on measuring sewage treatment. Brands which now On 10th April 2017 the UK litter and proposes the development have biodegradable sticks include: of a baseline and methodology for Johnsons, Marks and Spencer’s Free News Department for Communities and Read More... Local Government; Department for assessing and monitoring the extent Trade, The Body Shop Organics and Transport, and Defra published a Litter of litter in England. Following on Co-operative Fair Trade. Strategy for England. The Strategy from this, litter reduction targets Coastwatch 2016 Annual sets out a partnership approach to for commonly littered items will be Report working together to stop people considered. Read More... littering. It is intended that the The Cotton Bud Project Strategy will reduce the amount of Litter survey litter that makes its way into rivers and seas. Have you noticed packets of non- around Portaferry in Strangford Lough plastic cotton buds appearing in our Read More... shops? The Scottish Government along with Firda, an environmental Managing litter pollution charity based in East Lothian, the Litter Strategy for England in Larne Lough Scottish Wildlife Trust, Keep Scotland April 2017 Tobacco – a threat to Read More... Beautiful and Fauna and Flora and development Fauna International have been have been working with retailers to make The World Health Organisation Adopt a Spot the transition from plastic to paper celebrates 31 May as World No Read More... cotton bud sticks a reality. Tobacco Day. The theme for 2017 is “Tobacco – a threat to development”. Events Table Inappropriate disposal of cotton This addresses the affects of tobacco key dates for your diary buds products on the environment as well Read More... Litter Strategy for England Pollution from cotton bud sticks is as on the health of users. continued 7 Newsletter Issue 10 - Summer 2017
News continued Ulster Wildlife supports Ulster and Radio Foyle, and local Hello & Welcome the Big Spring Beach newspapers. Read More... No. 1 littered item on our planet Clean 149 Bags of litter removed Approximately 4.5 trillion cigarette Updates In total the equivalent of 149 bags of Read More... butts are littered each year. These In April, the Ulster Wildlife Living Seas litter were removed by 100 volunteers are made of plastic and contain toxic Team was active around the coast of during the five Big Spring Beach chemicals like arsenic, lead and ethyl Northern Ireland conducting beach Cleans. Ulster Wildlife would like to News phenol as well as nicotine. Plastic cleans for the Big Spring Clean. The thank Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, Read More... from cigarette packaging and lighters Team took part in five beach cleans Causeway Coast and Glens Borough can also cause marine animals to from Portrush to Carlingford Lough. Council, Mid and East Antrim Borough Coastwatch 2016 Annual choke. While banning smoking in Media interest was high with coverage Council and Newry Mourne and Down Report public places such as beaches could by Home Ground on BBC1 Television, District Council who provided logistics Read More... help address the problem, changing Your Place and Mine on BBC Radio and support. attitudes towards littering is also key. Litter survey Snuffed Out Marine Life around Portaferry in Strangford Lough Campaign Read More...
American charity the Surfrider Managing litter pollution Foundation and gryo San Francisco in Larne Lough have launched a campaign to Read More... de-normalise the act of littering cigarettes. The “Snuffed Out Marine Life” campaign uses clever images to Adopt a Spot directly connect cigarette butt litter Read More... to the wildlife being damaged. It aims to help change behaviour and make Events Table people think twice about dropping key dates for your diary cigarette litter. Cranfield Schools Marine LitterAwareness Read More... continued 8 Newsletter Issue 10 - Summer 2017
News continued Cranfield Beach clean-up Wojcieszek. In a team effort, a further Hello & Welcome The group headed to Cranfield Beach 74 bags of litter were removed from Read More... and met up with Love Your Lough for the beach. This brought the total Kilkeel schools litter awareness a beach clean. The children removed to 314 bags of litter removed since talk Updates 25 bags of plastic, glass, tin cans, old November 2015. Read More... 4th April saw a link-up with Love fishing gear, work gloves, and four car Your Lough for a school’s marine tyres. Larger items are no longer litter awareness talk and beach clean. present News Dave Wall gave a talk on the marine Kilroot Beach, Belfast Lough This time round the change was Read More... litter issues to 40 pupils from St. Louis On the 5th April the Living Seas Team noticeable. More effort was spent Grammar School Kilkeel, and Kilkeel undertook its fifth visit to Kilroot, on small pieces of litter as much of Coastwatch 2016 Annual High School. The students appeared Belfast Lough to tackle the ongoing the larger litter had been removed genuinely shocked by some of the Report litter problem on this beach. Once by previous efforts. A return in the Read More... facts, such as 8 million tonnes of again they were joined by the staff summer is planned to further progress plastic waste enter the world’s oceans and management of AES Kilroot, the goal of making this beach each year and this is set to double in local volunteers, and Ulster Wildlife/ litter-free. Litter survey the next 10 years. AES Biodiversity Intern, Monika around Portaferry in Strangford Lough Ramore Head, Portrush Read More... On 11th April, 25 local volunteers joined with Ulster Wildlife for a Managing litter pollution shoreline clean at Ramore Head. in Larne Lough Also on site was the Your Place and Read More... Mine radio programme, who covered the event and spoke to volunteers about why they were involved. At first Adopt a Spot glance, the headland didn’t look too Read More... badly littered but a shocking 35 bags of litter were removed from the rocks Events Table and rock pools along the shoreline. UW Kilroot key dates for your diary Most of the litter was food and Beachclean Read More... takeaway packaging. continued 9 Newsletter Issue 10 - Summer 2017
News continued Killough, Co. Down Partners Hello & Welcome Finally, on 21st April Ulster Wildlife The GGGI is a cross-sectoral alliance Read More... joined up with Lecale Conservation committed to driving solutions to Glenarm, Co. Antrim and a small band of volunteers in the problem of ghost gear worldwide On 20th April Ulster Wildlife teamed Updates Killough to conduct a beach clean. and was founded by global animal Read More... up with colleagues at Glenarm Wildlife 10 bags of litter and a fridge were welfare charity World Animal Group and the Heart of the Glens removed as well as dozens of rubber Protection in 2015. Members include Landscape Partnership Scheme for ties used by oyster farms. Ulster KIMO, TriMarine, Sainsbury’s, Young’s News a beach clean at Glenarm Strand. 17 Wildlife hopes to return to Killough in Seafood, Northern Prawn Fisheries, Read More... volunteers turned up to help and 10 the summer to complete a clean-up of and the International Pole and Line bags of litter, a pile of scrap metal and the shore around the harbour. Foundation. Coastwatch 2016 Annual various other items were removed Report from the beach. Two large plastic road barriers that had lain on the beach for Read More... four years gathering sand were also World Animal UN Ocean Conference removed. Protection Initiatives in June Litter survey around Portaferry in Strangford Lough The Global Ghost Gear Initiative The Global Ghost Gear Initiative Read More... (GGGI) launched practical guidance took part in the global UN Ocean for the seafood industry to reduce lost Conference on the 5th June. The or discarded fishing gear(ghost gear). conference took place in New York Managing litter pollution The guidance recommends practical and brought together countries all in Larne Lough steps the seafood industry can take around the world to pledge real Read More... to reduce the litter. Stakeholders actions on improving the health of are invited to provide feedback our oceans. GGGI held a high level Adopt a Spot through a global consultation on the side event with the Governments of Read More... framework - www.ghostgear.org/ Belgium and Tonga. We presented best-practice-consultation the work of the GGGI and how it is tackling the problem of lost and Events Table abandoned fishing gear. key dates for your diary UW Glenarm Beach Clean Read More...
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Coastwatch 2016 Annual Report by Karin Dubsky, International Coordinator – Coastwatch Europe Hello & Welcome Read More... Contact: [email protected] Updates International Network Results : Large Items Results : Small Items Read More... Coastwatch Ireland is part of There are 7 categories of large A total of 18,364 drinks container litter an international network of waste and the results for tyres are items were counted – that represents News environmental groups, universities significantly higher in the north than 70 items of drinks packaging per km Read More... and other educational institutions, they are in the south of Ireland. surveyed. who work with local groups and As in previous years, plastic bottles individuals around the coast of Used tyres were the most widespread topped the count. A total of 8,649 Coastwatch 2016 Annual Europe. large waste item north and south, bottles were recorded on 84% of the Report reported on 27.2% of the coast with a shoreline surveyed. This is an average Read More... Dedicated Volunteers total count of 1040 tyres in 143 survey of 36 bottles per km of coast. In Sadly no NI sponsorship was secured units. Although tyres were reported Northern Ireland the number of plastic for 2016. Hopefully 2017 which is in 47% of Northern Ireland survey bottles recorded was particularly Litter survey the 30th All Ireland Survey will see units the numbers were small. Some high. This was skewed by one very around Portaferry in Strangford Lough training and materials sponsorship, were bike tyres or tubes associated high count on the shore close to AES Read More... lots of volunteers and a sweep of the with a bike rest spot at the Narrows, Kilroot. Northern Ireland coast. Our website is Carlingford. Managing litter pollution already open for pre-booking. www. in Larne Lough coastwatch.org. Read More...
Coastwatch Report The Coastwatch Report is unique in Adopt a Spot that it reports on the island of Ireland Read More... and focuses on the coast-its character, bio diversity and marine litter. Events Table key dates for your diary Read More... Coastwatch volunteers celebrating World Oceans Day 2017 continued 11 Newsletter Issue 10 - Summer 2017
Coastwatch 2016 Annual Report continued Hello & Welcome Read More... Contact: [email protected] Updates Conclusions Read More... Coastwatch is calling for the introduction of a deposit return News system (DRS) for drinks containers to Read More... help reduce this type of litter.
We are also calling for better strategic Coastwatch 2016 Annual assessments to screen out new Report products and materials which could Read More... contribute to the marine litter load. Financial and other incentives are Litter survey required to address waste along with better detection and enforcement of around Portaferry in Strangford Lough penalties against those who break the Read More... Observations law. Looking back over the last 25 years, (but opening up of old sites by sea Managing litter pollution key changes include: erosion in at least 3 sites). A full chapter on recommendations is in Larne Lough (i) a progressive reduction in sewage provided in the Coastwatch waste and Read More... related litter. (iv) the arrival of new litter – from litter report which is now online. (ii) a trebling of sites which have mobile phones and microwaves been cleaned in the week of the to dog poo bags and cotton buds. Adopt a Spot Coastwatch survey – from 1-2% in While cotton buds have been Read More... the 1990s and early 2000 surveys, around for almost 90 years, it was to 4% in 2012, to 8% of shores in the change from rolled paper or Events Table 2016. wooden to plastic sticks which key dates for your diary made cotton buds a visible sewage Read More... (iii) the closure of coastal landfill sites related shore litter item.
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Litter survey around Portaferry in Strangford Lough by Gwen Moncoiffé Hello & Welcome Read More... Contact: Contact via the editor Updates Since September 2016, I have carried Classification Read More... out regular litter surveys and clean- Counting and categorising the items ups at two sites north of Portaferry is time consuming. However, it is News an important way to gain a better on the shore of Strangford Lough: Read More... Ballyhenry Bay and Marlfield Bay. Both Ballyhenry Bay understanding of the sources and these sites accumulate a lot of plastic washed ashore by tides and storms, dynamics of marine litter. It can also litter. Although they are occasionally accumulate in thick patches. A small help us develop local solutions. I Coastwatch 2016 Annual cleaned by local residents, the litter scenic road runs along the shore and used the MSFD list so that data can Report keeps coming! the bay is used by local yachtsmen be compared with other surveys in Read More... and divers. Northern Ireland and in Europe.
Results Subcategories Litter survey On my first clean-up I collected I also created my own subcategories around Portaferry in Strangford Lough 611 items which I counted into because I wanted to quantify items Read More... categories based on the Marine that were either recyclable locally, Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) dangerous to wildlife or likely to come Managing litter pollution classification. 90% of the litter was from local take-away shops. in Larne Lough plastic and over 50% was recyclable Read More... items such as plastic bottles, What have I learnt so far? aluminium cans, tetrapacks. A large Food packaging, in particular snack Getting started at Ballyhenry Bay proportion of the litter (64%) was food items such as crisps packets, Adopt a Spot I chose a continuous section of beach from food and drink packaging and sweets wrappers, soft drink bottles, Read More... which was easily accessible and could in particular sweets/snacks/crisps take-away containers and disposable be cleaned within 1 hour. The section wrappers (12%), small plastic drink cutlery, is the main source of plastic Events Table is south facing and mainly covered bottles (22%) and small drink cans litter around Portaferry. key dates for your diary with shingle. In autumn and winter (6%). Subsequent surveys showed Read More... wracks of torn off seaweed, similar results. continued 13 Newsletter Issue 10 - Summer 2017
Litter survey around Portaferry in Strangford Lough continued Hello & Welcome Read More... Contact: Contact via the editor Updates Need for local action marine wildlife. I always find them Cotton buds are found on beaches Read More... Many of these items look fairly fresh so during my surveys and pick them up because many people throw them local action to reduce littering would in priority to any other items when down the toilet. This is being tackled have a significant impact on reducing walking the shores. These items by pressure groups around the UK News the amount of marine litter in the should always be removed from the with some success (http://www. Read More... area. Public bins are not a solution shores to avoid them returning to the cottonbudproject.org.uk/) and some because winds and birds as well as sea and causing risk to sea mammals, supermarkets are already taking steps Coastwatch 2016 Annual careless disposal can result in litter birds and turtles. to stop selling plastic cotton bud Report being scattered and blown onto the sticks. This shows that targeted action Read More... beach. The message should be: “Take by volunteer groups can be effective. it home and bin it!” Clean beaches benefit everyone Litter survey A large proportion of the marine litter Cleaning your local beach is a good around Portaferry in Strangford Lough I collected is recyclable. These items way to keep fit and enjoy the fresh air Read More... should not be found on the beach in and the beauty of our surroundings such numbers. We need to understand without driving miles. It is rewarding Managing litter pollution why this is the case. While some may and it can be done without the in Larne Lough need for special equipment. A litter be brought by the tides as floating Read More... objects, others may have escaped Blue Gloves picker can be useful but a pair of from recycling bins or come from gloves is often sufficient. Lunging shorebased littering. Fishermen’s heavy duty blue gloves and crouching are good exercises Adopt a Spot and their wrappers are regularly found for the joints too! Every little action Read More... Some items such as large transparent on the shore in numbers that far counts: every bit of plastic removed or semi-transparent plastic exceed the occasional accidental loss. or prevented from reaching a coastal Events Table sheets, bags, meshed bags, nets, The habit of throwing things into the area is one less likely to pollute the key dates for your diary monofilament or decomposing plastic sea needs to be addressed among the ocean or cause harm to marine life. Read More... ropes are particularly hazardous to fishing community.
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Managing litter pollution in Larne Lough by Elaine Smith, Mid and East Antrim Borough Council Hello & Welcome Read More... Contact: [email protected] Updates Litter Read More... The area of the Lough closest to Larne Town, at the Harbour Highway, is a litter sink i.e. it gathers marine News debris (mostly plastic bottles) at high Read More... tide. The litter gets trapped and is detrimental to wildlife and unsightly. Coastwatch 2016 Annual Plastic bottles come from two main Report sources; those thrown out of lorries Read More... coming off boats at Larne Harbour (normally containing urine) and those Larne Lough Ducks and Rubbish thrown into the Inver River from Litter survey antisocial behaviour which are carried around Portaferry in Strangford Lough Larne Lough is a sea lough into the Lough. Read More... approximately 9 km long. It has diverse habitats around the shore Volunteers ranging from an artificial brackish Managing litter pollution Keeping the area litter free is lagoon in the northwest to mudflats, Pupils from St MacNissi’s in Larne Lough challenging. It has been cleared of rocky shores and salt marshes. Primary School in Larne Read More... bottles on a number of occasions over recent years, only to fill up again. washed) plastic bottles gathered after Wildlife Adopt a Spot Larne Lough regularly supports the February storms. The greenhouse Creative Solutions Read More... nationally important numbers was put together under the guidance In 2014 we worked with volunteers of overwintering birds including of the Council’s Education Officer who to clear the area. Pupils from St Goldeneye Ducks, Great Crested noted the construction contained Events Table MacNissi’s Primary School in Larne Grebes, Red-breasted Mergansers and over 700 bottles and was an ideal way key dates for your diary constructed a greenhouse made Shelducks. to get pupils talking about littering Read More... almost entirely of the (carefully issues. continued 15 Newsletter Issue 10 - Summer 2017
Managing litter pollution in Larne Lough continued Hello & Welcome Read More... Contact: [email protected] Updates Recycling to clear an additional 95 freight companies and the officials Joint Approach Read More... In January 2017, volunteers travelled bags of rubbish from this local beauty at the Port of Larne to highlight that from Portglenone, Kilrea and spot. drivers throw bottles into the sea as Rasharkin after viewing pictures of they come off the boats. The Council News the Lough’s rubbish-strewn banks. 53 Sadly, in spite of this work and the maintains the harbour highway and Read More... bags of rubbish were cleared from the litter picks that have happened since, ensures it is free from litter. This is part Lough shore. there has been little reduction in the of our ongoing cleaning programme. Coastwatch 2016 Annual amount of litter that gathers in this The area is also regularly monitored Report The following weekend the group area of the Lough. by litter wardens. The Council also Read More... joined forces with local residents, organises an annual litter pick of the members of Larne Through a Lens, Ongoing work highway in partnership with Asda and Larne Renovation Generation, Live Mid and East Antrim Council is uses local press to highlight area. Litter survey Here Love Here, Mid and East Antrim committed to addressing the problem. around Portaferry in Strangford Lough Borough Council and River Ridge The Council has written to local Going Forward Read More... Mid and East Antrim Council will continue to support volunteer Managing litter pollution groups to address the problem. Litter in Larne Lough picks will continue at Larne Lough Read More... at least twice annually. In addition, the Council is working with PSNI to address antisocial behaviour in the Adopt a Spot areas close to Larne Lough and Inver Read More... River. The Council’s environmental education programme continues to Events Table arrange school visits in the Borough key dates for your diary to highlight the damage caused by Read More... Asda volunteers marine litter.
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Adopt a Spot by Jodie McAneaney, Live Here Love Here Manager Hello & Welcome Read More... Contact: [email protected] Updates Is there an area in your community Committed volunteers How to run a clean up Read More... that could do with a clean up? Are There are currently 238 spots adopted With the help of Keep Northern you fed up of unsightly graffiti, litter by volunteers who have committed Ireland Beautiful you will hold four and dog mess on your doorstep? With to holding eight clean ups over a clean ups a year at a time of your News street cleansing costing £43 million a two year period – that’s 1904 clean choosing. Keep Northern Ireland Read More... year, why not take pride in your area ups undertaken by Adopt A Spot Beautiful will provide groups with and Adopt A Spot! volunteers helping to revitalise an adoption pack containing all Coastwatch 2016 Annual communities across Northern Ireland. the equipment you need, including Report Anywhere is possible litter pickers, gloves, high-vis vests, Read More... Adopt A Spot is a scheme that certificate and a hints and tips booklet formally enables volunteer groups on how to run a successful clean up. across Northern Ireland to adopt an Litter survey area and look after it. It could be a around Portaferry in Strangford Lough mile of beach that always seems to Read More... be full of litter, an area covered in graffiti, an urban park or your local Managing litter pollution forest or even the street you live on…. in Larne Lough anywhere is possible! Adopt a Spot - Millisle Feel good and make a difference Read More... Adopters can be anyone, from families, community or youth groups, Get involved Adopt a Spot schools, businesses and sporting If you are interested in instilling a Read More... associations. Volunteering is a pride of place in your community and great way to get out and about and busting that grot, or simply would Events Table give you a feel good factor while like more information, please contact key dates for your diary simultaneously making a difference in Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful at the Read More... Tesco Adopt a Spotters your community. details above.
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Updates 05/08/2017 Summer Festival, http://www.ulsterwildlife.org/events/2017/08/05/donaghadee-rnli-day Read More... Donaghadee, Co. Down News 08/08/2017 Snorkel Safari, http://www.ulsterwildlife.org/events/2017/08/08/snorkel-safari-portrush Read More... Portrush, Co. Antrim 10/08/2017 Surveying Marine http://www.ulsterwildlife.org/events/2017/08/10/workshop-surveying-marine- Coastwatch 2016 Annual Mammals mammals Workshop, Cultra, Report Co. Down Read More... 13/08/2017 Coastal Foraging, http://www.ulsterwildlife.org/events/2017/08/13/coastal-foraging-cushendall Cushendall, Litter survey Co. Antrim around Portaferry in Strangford Lough 15/08/2017 Snorkel Safari, http://www.ulsterwildlife.org/events/2017/08/15/snorkel-safari-glenarm Read More... Glenarm, Co. Antrim 17/08/2017 Coastal Foraging, http://www.ulsterwildlife.org/events/2017/08/17/coastal-foraging-rostrevor Rostrevor, Co. Down Managing litter pollution in Larne Lough 23/08/2017 Snorkel Safari, http://www.ulsterwildlife.org/events/2017/08/23/snorkel-safari-killough Read More... Killough, Co. Down 26/08/2017 Wake the http://www.ulsterwildlife.org/events/2017/08/26/wake-giant-festival-warrenpoint Giant Festival, Adopt a Spot Warrenpoint Read More... 26/08/2017 WhaleWatch http://www.ulsterwildlife.org/events/2017/08/26/whalewatch-ireland-2017 Ireland, Bloody Events Table Bridge, Co. Down key dates for your diary 29/08/2017 Snorkel Safari - http://www.ulsterwildlife.org/events/2017/08/29/snorkel-safari-groomsport Read More... Groomsport
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Updates 16/09/2017 Coastal Foraging http://www.ulsterwildlife.org/events/2017/09/16/coastal-foraging-carlingford Read More... - Carlingford 14/10/2017 Seashore Scavenge http://www.ulsterwildlife.org/events/2017/10/14/seashore-scavenge-glenarm News - Glenarm Read More...
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