Meet the north-east’s top beach cleaning champions
The volume of plastics in our oceans has long been one of Scotland’s biggest news stories – until an even bigger news story came along.
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Beach Clean Champions: Catterline schoolkids win the Really Rubbish Award in our reader’s poll
The litter-picking children of Catterline Primary School have won our reader's poll to decide the best Beach Clean Champions of the north-east.
Beach Clean Champions: Why nurdles are the biggest pollution disaster you’ve never heard of
Famous for its 400-strong colony of seals, nesting terns and beautiful sandy dunes, Newburgh Beach has recently become home to another, less pleasant resident: nurdles.
Beach Clean Champions: Four tonnes of litter removed in one day from the ‘north-east’s worst beach’
When it comes to organisations working to protect the environment, oil firms aren’t usually first to spring to mind.
Beach Clean Champions: Catterline schoolkids ‘absolutely love’ litter-picks
As the children of Catterline Primary scatter across the village beach with grins on their faces and bin bags in hand, their teacher Jane Turner reflects how strange it was that cleaning up rubbish used to be a punishment for naughty children.
Beach Clean Champions: Dirty nappies and wet wipes show the other side of St Cyrus
It’s a promising June morning and St Cyrus beach is gradually coming to life: dog owners, power walkers and picnickers are scattered across the dunes.
Beach Clean Champions: Pick Up Peterhead’s nine years of outstanding community efforts
As a fishing town, Peterhead has always depended on the health of the North Sea, and one community group has gone above and beyond to protect it.
Beach Clean Champions: Craig from Collieston scrambles up cliffs to keep beaches clean
Plastic dinosaurs, 50 pairs of pants and unexploded World War II bombs are among the most unusual finds by beach cleaner extraordinaire Craig Leuchars, but it’s the more common threats to the environment that infuriate him the most.
Community clean up challenge collects 1.2 tonnes of marine litter in just two weeks
More than a tonne of marine litter has been collected by Shetland residents in just two weeks following a community clean up challenge by islanders.