[QUOTE 5201419, member: 9609"]I have bean collecting plastic junk off the beach for decades, particularly fishing line and twine etc as I have seen the destructive nature of this stuff on wildlife.
And a couple of really positive changes I have seen f late is firstly the huge decline in plastic carrier bags, the recent change in regulations is just wonderful, and secondly all the recent publicity surrounding plastic waste is getting others to pick up the plastics on the beach.
Here is the bin at the car park that has been filled with plastics off the beach
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this is what I collected, I don't go out of my way to find it as I am mainly enjoying walking on the beach watching birds.
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and the sad thing is this isnt some beach in an urban enviroment, this is a pristine northumbria beach, a beach that if you were to visit you would probably declare it to be the finest beach you had ever walked on any where in the world.
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The majority of the rubbish in your second picture looks more like it came off the boats, trawler and creel rather than every day plastics we all use. Very difficult to stop that just washing back up on your beach.