East Grampian Coastal Partnership Ltd. Turning the Plastic Tide Project Report: August 2018 to September 2020

January 2021

At 9.00 am on Thursday 25th April 2019, heaps of waste lie tangled in seaweed and submerged in the sand at Cairnbulg beach.

At 4.00 pm on Thursday 25th April 2019, Cairnbulg beach looking spotless after 4.14 tonnes of marine litter was removed from the one kilometre stretch of coast by volunteers from Premier Oil during a staff beach clean.

Photography by Crawford Paris (© EGCP), unless otherwise stated.

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Executive Summary

Turning the Plastic Tide was established in August 2018 as a two-year NESFLAG-funded project for East Grampian Coastal Partnership. During this time, the project has excelled in delivering benefits to coastal communities between Fraserburgh and East Haven, in Angus, primarily through the delivery of beach clean support and education to primary and secondary schools.

The following statistics provide a summary of the project’s key achievements between August 2018 and September 2020:

• Beach Clean/Litter Pick Events = 67 (Initial target = 40) • Beach Clean Volunteers Engaged = 2,500 (Initial target = 800) • Volunteer Hours (Beach Cleaning) = 6,000 • Community Beach Clean Kit Stations = 4 • Marine Litter Removed = 25.36 tonnes • Schools Engaged = 29 (Initial target = 20) • School Pupils Engaged (Marine Litter Education) = 2,200 (Initial target = 800) • School Beach Cleans = 15 • School Pupils Engaged (Beach Cleaning) = 800 • Social Media Followers = 1,800

During the project, litter picks and beach cleans organised for schools has accounted for the removal of approximately 800 kilogrammes of waste from the environment, over 300 of which has been uplifted by pupils from Ladyloan Primary in Arbroath. The pupils have launched all three of the Great Angus Beach Clean weekends held to date by removing litter from their local patch of coastline. Their determinaion and dedication has deservedly earned them the worthy status of Marine Litter and Habitat Champions for Angus.

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Acknowledgements

With the primary core funding now coming to an end, Turning the Plastic Tide has been successful in gaining new funds to sustain project activities and continue delivering benefits to coastal communities. The project would like to thank NESFLAG, the European Union’s European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) and the Scottish Government for the opportunity to deliver these activities across the North East of Scotland. In addition, the following organisations have also been essential in supporting the growth and success initiative since its launch in 2018: Peterhead Port Authority, Vattenfall, Scottish Fisherman’s Trust, Aberdeen Fish Producer’s Organisation, Angus Council, Aberdeenshire Council, Fraserburgh Harbour, Montrose Port Authority, Oil and Gas UK, Premier Oil, BP, and Shell.

Turning the Plastic Tide would also like to thank the Marine Conservation Society, Surfers Against Sewage North East Scotland, Marine Scotland, SCRAPbook, Aberdeenshire Council Ranger Service, Aberdeenshire Council Landscape Services, Aberdeenshire Council Community Waste Officers, staff at Forvie and St Cyrus National Nature Reserves, KIMO UK, Pick Up Peterhead, East Haven Together, Littoral Art Project, AbSafe, PolFit, Pony Axes, Stonehaven Sea Safari, Keep Scotland Beautiful, the RNLI, Wood Recyclability, Fraserburgh and District Community Safety Group, Fraserburgh Beach Café, The Sand Bothy, Molly’s Café, and the community councils for their invaluable collaboration and help with raising awareness of marine litter issues.

Finally, the utmost gratitude to all the school pupils, teachers, parents, and volunteers who have given their time to celebrate and improve our wonderful coastline and sea.

A dedicated team of 92 pupils, teachers and parents from New Machar School collect litter from the sands at Balmedie Beach on 21st June 2019.

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Introduction

Turning the Plastic Tide is a two-year NESFLAG-funded environmental initiative for East Grampian Coastal Partnership Ltd. (EGCP) which delivers marine litter education and supports volunteer beach cleaning in the North East of Scotland from Kinnaird Head, in Fraserburgh, to East Haven, in Angus. With a goal to engage and educate the public in marine litter issues, Turning the Plastic Tide has considerably over-delivered on its targets, reaching three times as many individuals as initially anticipated and delivering almost twice as many beach cleans.

The aims and objectives were largely met during 2019, a time when the project significantly gained momentum after having completed a series of presentations to community councils across Angus and Aberdeenshire towards the end of 2018, and advertising education workshops to schools in early 2019. This initial outreach contributed greatly to both a busy spell of school visits during Spring and a busy year-round programme of clean-ups organised in partnership with community interest groups, charities, businesses, and schools. As a result, by December 2019 the project had successfully delivered 61 beach cleans and 21 school visits.

Due to rapidly changing circumstances brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020 Turning the Plastic Tide adapted its approach to engaging the public in marine litter issues, creating online education resources for primary schools and pupils working from home. This also included running a 3-month social media competition in which parents submitted their children’s marine-themed artwork, poems, and stories to help raise awareness about protecting our coast and seas. In addition to school education, COVID- secure beach cleaning was also promoted through the regularly updated COVID-19 Safe Beach Clean Guide, and subsequently with the network of ‘Take 4 for the Shore’ community equipment boxes, which were installed across parts of Aberdeenshire and Angus.

The following report outlines these activities and achievements, including the project launch in August 2018, notable achievements during the delivery of marine litter education and voluntary beach cleaning in 2019, and projects which illustrate how the project adapted to support to coastal communities during the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

Project Launch at Sandford Bay

To launch the project and demonstrate the type of support Turning the Plastic Tide aimed to provide over the next two years, one of the East Grampian coast’s worst-affected beaches, Sandford Bay, was selected for the location of the clean-up. Local beach litter awareness group, Pick Up Peterhead, had last cleaned the beach in June 2018 but had struggled to clear the heavier items due to difficulty accessing the correct mechanical equipment. This presented an opportunity for Turning the Plastic Tide to offer assistance.

During September 2018, Peterhead Port Authority kindly advertised the launch and distributed posters around their facility. A press release was also sent out to the local papers, receiving a positive response, and was picked up by Scottish Field Magazine, the Buchan Observer, Fishing News, and the Press and Journal. BBC Radio Scotland also extended an invitation to speak about the project and the launch event on the ‘Out of Doors’ programme, which was broadcasted on Saturday 15th September.

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On 22nd September, 45 participants arrived prepared to clean Sandford Bay, including the local Sea Cadets, a team from the Community Payback Service, staff from Peterhead Port Authority, a volunteer from the University of Aberdeen and members of Peterhead community, as well as several EGCP board members. All volunteers were provided with safety equipment acquired through project funding, including gloves, litter pickers, bin bags and bin bag hoops. To assist with the heavy lifting, Aberdeenshire Council’s Landscape Services department kindly provided a tractor, quad bike and two trailers, accompanied by three staff members. A large skip was also arranged through the council which was located on the premises of a nearby private property.

Nets and rope being hauled from Sandford Bay by Aberdeenshire Council’s Landscape Services team during the project launch on 22nd September 2018.

Over the course of the afternoon the volunteers, along with the essential assistance of the Landscape Services team, went on to remove 2.4 tonnes of marine litter from the beach in as little as three hours. Most notably, large sections of tangled rope and netting submerged in the sand that once were a permanent feature of the beach, made up the majority of the collected weight. Also frequently found were small pieces of plastic, with an estimate of around 1000 pieces per square metre in some areas.

Although highlighting the severity of the impacts of marine litter on the coast, the launch at Sandford Bay demonstrated how positive engagement with the local community combined with utilising available resources from Aberdeenshire Council can really make a difference. The success of the launch ultimately formed a template for how the project would plan and coordinate beach clean events moving forward.

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Marine Litter Education Programme

The delivery of a Marine Litter Education forms one of the core activities of the initiative. A workshop approach was chosen for delivering a programme across schools, the content of which covers single-use plastics, litter from source-to-sea, impacts on Scottish wildlife and on local beaches, as well as certain actions that can be taken to reduce these impacts. The structure of the session consists of a 30-minute interactive presentation followed by a quiz, as well as a group activity challenging the pupils to think about how long certain types of litter last in the marine environment before they begin to fragment.

During 2019, the programme was successful in reaching not only primary and secondary schools, but also several youth groups throughout the region including Cubs and Scouts, and where possible followed up with a clean-up at a local beach.

Following a series of marine litter workshops at the school, a record 125 pupils and teachers from Arduthie Primary attended a beach clean at Stonehaven on 7th June 2019.

School and Youth Group Visits

To initiate interest among schools throughout the project area, a flyer was designed and distributed through a region-wide newsletter via Aberdeenshire Council in January 2019, sparking a flow of interest initially from primary schools, then laterally from secondary schools and youth groups. In total, the 19 schools were visited between March and June 2019, particularly in the run up to the Summer break. Some were also visited multiple times in order to deliver the sessions to individual classes. Other visits consisted of delivering the presentation to the entire school in an assembly format before breaking off into individual classes to run the quiz and group activity.

A key lesson learned was that each school has varying needs and expectations, generally determined by the time and staff available on a given day. However, with the workshop format consisting of multiple teaching approaches, such as presentations and group activities, the delivery of the content could be adapted as desired. The presentation style could also be tailored to particular age groups, for example when a session is intended to be for younger groups in Primary 1 or 2 some content needed to be less complex. Having such flexibility enabled the programme to be delivered to an optimal number of schools and as

6 many age groups as possible. The result was approximately 1,800 school pupils and a further 80 from Cubs and Scouts groups engaged in marine litter education in 2019.

School and Youth Group Beach Cleans

A major element to the education programme was the added option for each school or youth group to take part in a beach clean, as a means of enhancing the learning experience in the classroom. This provided an opportunity for the pupils to identify the various types of marine litter present and assess which possible sources they may have come from. For example, being able to distinguish a cotton bud stem from a lollypop stick and then determining that it may have been flushed down a toilet. Similar lessons on the beach, such as identifying crisp packets or sweet wrapper, further help the pupils understand how easy it is for litter to make its way into the marine environment from further inland or upstream. Hence, the beach clean follow-up was a crucial aspect of helping to fully develop an awareness and understanding of the ‘source-to-sea’ content taught in the classroom.

Including events with both schools and youth groups, during 2019 a total of 734 young adults were involved directly in cleaning up approximately 750 kilogrammes of marine litter from the project area coastline. In total, the project has organised 15 clean-up events for 800 school pupils, amounting to roughly 1,600 volunteer hours spent cleaning the coastline.

Beach Clean Event Programme

At the beginning of January 2019, Turning the Plastic Tide began to implement its first comprehensive Beach Clean Events Series, with the plan to organise and support a minimum of 20 clean-ups, reaching a target of 400 volunteers. The actual outreach of the events proved to be far higher, partially as a result of engaging with community councils, grass-roots environmental groups, local businesses and nationwide marine litter campaigns, but also through collaborating with other event programmes in the project area. This, coupled with an overwhelmingly positive response from schools throughout the project area, saw the initiative surpass its initial target within the first few months, delivering 53 beach cleans and engaging around 1,900 volunteers in 2019 alone. In total, Turning the Plastic Tide has delivered and supported 67 beach cleans to approximately 2,500 volunteers.

Spring Clean Series 2019

While supporting clean-up events with Surfers Against Sewage, Turning the Plastic Tide also held its own Spring Clean Series between April and May 2019, running 12 beach cleans organised primarily for individual communities but also for many schools and the initiative’s first corporate event.

The series presented an opportunity to employ a targeted approach to tackling areas that had been severely affected by marine litter, such as Craigewan Beach, and two known litter sinks at Cairnbulg Beach and Sandford Bay. These beaches had accumulated vast quantities of litter in previous years, meaning that a conventional approach using only manual labour from volunteers alone would not have been viable to make a significant reduction in the substantial amounts of litter present. Mechanical assistance was sought for each of these events, including in-kind help from Fraserburgh Harbour’s new NESFLAG- funded bobcat, as well as tractors, quad bikes and trailers from Aberdeenshire Council’s Landscape Services team. This equipment, along with 135 volunteers in Aberdeenshire and

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Angus, removed an incredible 12.7 tonnes of marine litter between April and May from these three high-priority sites, as well as other badly affected areas (see Key Figures and Tables, pp. 15 and 16).

The Inaugural Great Angus Beach Clean

Notably during the project’s Spring Clean Series was the planning and implementation of the inaugural Great Angus Beach Clean weekend over the 10th to 12th May. Spanning the coastline from Arbroath to Carnoustie, this three-day event was the largest of its kind ever to take place in Angus and was coordinated in partnership with local charity, East Haven Together (EHT).

Large parts of the Angus coast are prone to impacts from bulky items washing ashore, such as creel pots, tyres, and ghost nets. To tackle the problem EHT purchased an all-terrain vehicle through LEADER funding in April 2019. The vehicle enabled an alternative approach where the public were encouraged to “go the extra mile”, starting from anywhere between Carnoustie and Arbroath, walking as far as they could while bagging litter and then leaving it above the high tide line when it became too heavy to carry. Piles of large debris and bagged waste were then systematically collected by the vehicle at periods of low water during each of the three days and brought back to a storage area at East Haven.

Turning the Plastic Tide provided support initially through promoting a social media campaign using the hashtag #GreatABC19 to raise awareness of the event. Participants were encouraged to use the hashtag when posting on social media while beach cleaning, which helped estimate how many individuals were involved. Turning the Plastic Tide also contributed additional beach cleaning equipment for those who did not have their own.

3 tonnes of marine litter removed and stored at East Haven during the inaugural Great Angus Beach Clean in April 2019.

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To officially launch the event, a school beach clean was organised with 60 pupils from the local school, Ladyloan Primary, which featured in The Courier and on STV News. Impressive media coverage in the weeks preceding the event saw an overwhelming response from the public, with groups from all over Angus, and some as far as Edinburgh, coming along to participate. Over the course of the three days, 200 people took part in “going the extra mile”, stacking up a staggering 3 tonnes of litter above the high tide line between Carnoustie and Arbroath, which was subsequently removed using the all-terrain vehicle.

The success of the inaugural Great Angus Beach Clean has led to several more being held. In September 2019, it was run again in tandem with the Angus Coastal Festival and the Great British Beach Clean weekend, and again in September 2020 despite restrictions brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. Across these three events, several hundred volunteers have removed a total of 5 tonnes of marine litter from the Angus coastline.

Remote Beach Clean Trial

An important ambition for Turning the Plastic Tide was tackling marine litter present in some of the area’s most remote coves and bays. Accumulations in these locations can be vast due to their exposure to the sea and lack of easy or safe land-based access for volunteers to remove the litter.

In late 2018, discussions began with a new local business venture, Stonehaven Sea Safari, that had expressed an interest in collaborating to help access challenging coastal areas nearby Stonehaven with the use of the company’s new NESFLAG-funded Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB). An operation to incorporate the use of two vessels was devised, utilising the main RIB that would transport volunteers to the locations and a second smaller boat for ferrying volunteers ashore. This process was overseen by three crew from the RNLI station in Stonehaven, who supervised the landing of the smaller vessel on the shore and assisted volunteers during transfer between vessels.

A small team of volunteers and RNLI crew assemble on 29th August 2019 for the trial remote beach clean operation at Skatie Shore, with the Stonehaven Sea Safari support vessel in the background (photograph by Sandra Fraser).

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On 29th August 2019, a successful trial of the operation was carried out north of Stonehaven at Skatie Shore with five volunteers from Marine Scotland, including Chief Scientific Advisor Marine, Colin Moffat. Also in attendance was MSP for Angus North and the Mearns, Mairi Gougeon, who at the time was also Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment. Before being transported back to Stonehaven Harbour, the marine litter collected by the volunteers was stowed safely above the high tide line and collected by the RNLI later the same day as part of a training exercise.

Highlighted as one of the first coordinated attempts to address cleaning remote areas in the North East, Mark Stephen from BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Out of Doors’ programme attended to document the operation. A ten-minute segment was broadcast on Radio Scotland on 14th September about the initiative’s collaborative efforts and the importance of removing marine litter in such remote locations. Subsequently, the operation was praised by Ms Gougeon at a debate in Scottish Parliament on 3rd October, with compliments to Stonehaven Sea Safari, the RNLI and Turning the Plastic Tide (video link, Other Achievements and Media, p.13).

Private Sector Engagement

In 2019, the initiative endeavoured to engage not only schools and local communities in reducing marine litter, but also to encourage greater participation and responsibility from industry, in particular the Energy Sector. A link with the sector was established in late 2018 with Premier Oil after the company expressed a keen interest in assisting the initiative with a beach clean.

On a bright and sunny day, staff from Premier Oil were thrilled to remove 4.14 tonnes of marine litter from Cairnbulg Beach on 25th April 2019.

Turning the Plastic Tide held its first ever corporate clean-up with Premier on 25th April 2019 at Cairnbulg beach, where approximately 40 volunteers spent the day removing items from the beach with help from Fraserburgh Harbour’s NESFLAG-funded bobcat. In the first hour, 280 kilogrammes of recyclable materials were collected before a further 3.86 tonnes of mixed waste were removed. Of the total 4.14 tonnes gathered, 557 intact Showa blue rubber

10 gloves were recorded, along with 49 whole oil filters from medium sized vessels and a considerable amount of fabric rags (video link, Other Achievements and Media, p.13).

After the impactful corporate event launch on 25th April, links were made with the Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) Environment Forum, later leading to an invitation to present to the group on 11th June 2019 to promote Energy Sector involvement in beach cleaning. Around 30 delegates were present, and the event proved to be pivotal in raising the profile of the initiative amongst the OGUK network, leading to engagements with Siemens Gas and Power, Blue Manta, Shell, Wood, National Grid and BP.

Since the initial event with Premier Oil, Turning the Plastic Tide facilitated a further 8 beach cleans as a result of engaging with these six companies, targeting priority sites at Forvie National Nature Reserve and previously uncleaned areas, such as the Inverallochy Shoreline. All together, these efforts accounted for the removal of 3 tonnes of litter from the marine environment since the initial corporate launch in April 2019 with Premier, and in total, voluntary beach cleans with the Energy Sector have accounted for almost one-third of the overall tonnage removed over the course of the project.

Graduates from BP were put through their paces at Inverallochy, tackling a previously uncleaned stretch of shoreline by the golf course. With help from Aberdeenshire Council’s Landscape Services, the group removed 1.2 tonnes in 4 hours.

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Adapting to COVID-19

Following the announcement of the national lockdown in March 2020, the project cancelled 30 events, including school visits, training workshops and beach cleans. However, the rapid changes to normal operations presented opportunities for an alternative approach to supporting coastal communities, particularly through providing home-schooling activities and provisions for remote COVID-safe beach cleaning.

School Education Pack

After cancelling several school visits in March due to the pandemic, a school education pack was created and distributed online to schools across Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, and Angus at the beginning of April. The pack offered a variety of activities for primary school pupils working from home including mathematics, story-writing, arts and crafts, games, and puzzles. The activities introduce themes relating to beach cleaning, marine litter, and waste reduction, which have been used both at home and in classes to aid learning about the environment and sustainability.

The full pack is still in circulation around schools and is available online here: Marine Litter Learners - Education Pack

School Lockdown Competition

Drawing from the activities in the Education Pack, the project created a 12-week environmental awareness competition from the beginning of April with the intention to give pupils working from home a weekly task to focus on. 170 entries from Aberdeenshire and Angus schools were keenly submitted by parents via the project’s Facebook page, each receiving feedback with weekly and monthly winners. As an incentive, each entry was awarded a certificate of achievement and a specially designed project t-shirt featuring a friendly crab logo and project funders.

To celebrate the hard work of each pupil, a video summarising the competition with messages from parents and pupils was created and is available to view here, WATCH: School pupils use lockdown to save the sea!

Take 4 for the Shore

Take 4 for the Shore is an initiative which encourages people to collect at least four items of litter while visiting the coast. The project produced beach clean kit stations and located them at popular visitor locations – Fraserburgh, Balmedie, Stonehaven, and East Haven in Angus. Each station consists of an upcycled wooden box containing equipment, PPE, and specially designed guidance to help participants carry out a beach clean safely, with local businesses and charity groups helping to manage the boxes at each location.

The project was launched in September 2020, partially in response to major littering incidents experienced in the months prior following the easing of the lockdown, but also as a means to encourage small groups and individuals to get outdoors and enjoy the coast (General Press Release - Project Launch; Fraserburgh Local Launch; Press and Journal Article). Since then, the stations have supported families taking part in the Great Angus Beach Clean event, dog walkers in Stonehaven participating in the ‘Paws on Plastic’ campaign, and more recently by local primary school children as part of their outdoor camp days at the Sand Bothy in Balmedie Country Park.

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The launch of ‘Take 4 for the Shore’ outside Molly’s Café in Stonehaven on 17th September 2020. L-R: Mairi Gougeon MSP, Cllr Sarah Dickinson, Cllr Brian Topping, Crawford Paris (EGCP), and Janice Langdon (Molly’s Café). (Photograph by Sandra Fraser)

Other Achievements and Media (links)

• Premier Oil Beach Clean - Cairnbulg (April 2019) [Youtube]

• Biggest Ever Angus Beach Clean Gets Underway (April 2019) [The Courier, Online Article]

• Record 4.38 Tonnes Removed by Turning the Plastic Tide at Sandford Bay (May 2019) [Press and Journal, Online Article]

• Pony Power to Tackle North East Beach Pollution Problem (June 2019) [Press and Journal, Online Article]

• Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment on Turning the Plastic Tide (Scottish Parliament, October 2019) [Online Video Link]

• VIDEO: Turning the Plastic Tide (2019 Summary) [Youtube]

• Great Angus Beach Clean 2020 (Summary) [PDF]

• COVID-19 Safe Beach Clean Guide [PDF]

• VIDEO: Lego Stop Motion Beach Clean [Youtube]

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A one-tonne ghost net being removed by Aberdeenshire Council Landscape Services at Sandford Bay,25th May 2019, where 4.38 tonnes of marine litter was removed in three hours.

Obama the pony (Pony Axes) assisting with the removal of heavy beach litter at Waters of Philorth Local Nature Reserve, 8th June 2019.

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Key Figures and Tables

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Figure 1: Level of engagement by number of volunteers during 2019. An initial outreach target of 800 volunteers was projected for the two-year duration of the project. At the mid- way point of the project in September 2019, around 2,200 volunteers had already taken part in beach cleans.

Tonnage Volunteers

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10 1000 NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS OF NUMBER 5 500

0 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Figure 2: Gross monthly marine litter tonnage removed against number of beach clean volunteers in 2019. A total of 25.36 tonnes has been removed by approximately 2,500 volunteers between August 2018 and September 2020.

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Tonnage Volunteer Effort (Hours)

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0 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Figure 3: Volunteer effort measured in hours across each month in 2019, compared with the amount of tonnage removed. A total of 4,478 hours was spent cleaning 20.86 tonnes of marine litter in 2019.

Beach Cleans Volunteers

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NO. OF VOLUNTEERS OF NO. NO. OF BEACH OF NO. CLEANS 4 100 2

0 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Figure 4: Number of beach clean events and volunteers per month in 2019. Spring and Autumn were by far the busiest periods, with a record of 512 volunteers in May and 15 beach cleans in September. A total of 1,870 volunteers took part across 53 beach cleans in 2019.

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Table 1: Beach cleans organised and/or supported during 2019.

Date Beach Location 26/06/2019 Broadsea Shore, 26/01/2019 Cruden Bay Fraserburgh 09/02/2019 East Haven 12/07/2019 North Haven 24/03/2019 Blackdog 20/07/2019 Gadle Braes, Peterhead 30/03/2019 Inverbervie 10/08/2019 Stonehaven (cancelled) 30/03/2019 St Cyrus NNR 13/08/2019 Inverbervie-Gourdon 31/03/2019 Lunan Bay 23/08/2019 St Fergus 13/04/2019 East Haven 24/08/2019 Greyhope Bay 14/04/2019 Gourdon-Bervie 25/08/2019 Blackdog 20/04/2019 Montrose 29/08/2019 Skatie Shore 25/04/2019 Cairnbulg 30/08/2019 Forvie NNR 27/04/2019 Inverbervie 11/09/2019 Inverbervie-Gourdon 09/05/2019 Ythan Estuary 12/09/2019 Inverallochy Shore 10/05/2019 Arbroath (Harbour) 13/09/2019 Arbroath (Harbour) 10/05/2019 Carnoustie-Arbroath 14/09/2019 Carnoustie-Arbroath 11/05/2019 Carnoustie-Arbroath 15/09/2019 Carnoustie-Arbroath 12/05/2019 Carnoustie-Arbroath 19/09/2019 East Haven 12/05/2019 Craigewan 20/09/2019 Ferryden 15/05/2019 Inverbervie-Gourdon 20/09/2019 Scurdie Ness 17/05/2019 Catterline 21/09/2019 St Cyrus NNR 23/05/2019 Newburgh 22/09/2019 Bridge of Don 25/05/2019 Sandford Bay 22/09/2019 Lunan Bay 31/05/2019 Cowie, Stonehaven 23/09/2019 Montrose 07/06/2019 Stonehaven 26/09/2019 Forvie NNR 08/06/2019 Waters of Philorth 29/09.2019 Cruden Bay 20/06/2019 Cairnbulg 30/09/2019 Craigewan 21/06/2019 Balmedie 02/10/2019 Newburgh 25/06/2019 Peterhead Lido 07/12/2019 Newburgh

Author: Crawford Paris Project Manager, Turning the Plastic Tide EGCP Ltd. Phone: 07578 750 068 Email: [email protected] Website: www.egcp.scot/ttpt

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