Talking trash

Yesterday, we took a trip down to Mwnt beach in west Wales, to meet our friends at howies and talk about a project we’re all working on.

After our beach meeting, we spent a few minutes picking up the litter which had been washed in, just a few hours before we arrived.

Mwnt beach is a beautiful and small beach, and it was a real shock for us to collect (amongst other things) over 50 plastic drinks bottles. If this happened everytime the tide came in, in a year the number of bottles would be close to 38,000.

Thankfully, the people at howies take time out of their business and regularly come down to Mwnt beach for a trash walk – even in late December, when it's ‘minus seven’.

Good work howies.

Thoughtful’s ’Environmental News Story’ on the issue by reporter Stuart Price, can be seen below.

Comments

[Kat]

I remember picking up sea glass on Mwnt as a child. You don't see so much of it now - it's all ugly plastic that will never fully disintegrate. I think bottled water is one of man's most ridiculous inventions.

I will litterpick Llangrannog when I get there next week ;-)

Weird how (almost) all your bottles still have their tops on?! Just a random thought...

[chris]

Thanks for the comment Kat, most of the bottles still had liquid in them too. It seemed like people were decent enough to put the tops back on, but not to bin the bottles afterwards. Weird.