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Pick Up Three Pieces: Marine Litter Machine

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Removing marine litter from Orkney shores 3 pieces at a time. Lots of good ideas for how to get litter out of our oceans in this class competition! 20 May 2014 at 06:56. Great drawings well done! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Orkney Local Access Forum. The First PU3P bin at Scapa. A guest post by Mary Harris - The children of Nort. Guest post by the Eday Ranger - Jenny Campbell. PU3P visit to Rousay. PU3P works with Orkney Islands Council to find solutions to removing marine litter from our shores.

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Pick Up Three Pieces: February 2013

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Removing marine litter from Orkney shores 3 pieces at a time. Out of Sight, Out of Mind. At first glance Scapa can sometimes look quite clean, but closer inspection shows the litter has been covered over with wind blown sand, Investigate a little deeper and the litter is trapped beneath stones which have been moved by winter storms. In one 20m stretch the predominant type of litter was short lengths of rope, polypropylene strapping and small sheets of blue plastic. It didn't take long to fill a bucket.

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Pick Up Three Pieces: May 2013

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Removing marine litter from Orkney shores 3 pieces at a time. Keep on bagging the bruck! John Muir Day and Earth Day Coincided with 'Bag the Bruck' weekend here in Orkney this year. Along with a (temporary) slight rise in temperatures after a long cold winter it felt like the beginning of a new year. Lots of community groups joining forces over a weekend made a real difference to the amount of waste lying around on our shores and made the big spring clean an authentic community event. The idea of taking ...

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Pick Up Three Pieces: November 2013

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Removing marine litter from Orkney shores 3 pieces at a time. Firth are full of good ideas! This week PU3P visited the Pupil Council at Firth School, which is situated in a fantastic location for marine education. The Pupil Council found out about some of the effects that marine litter has on animals that live in the ocean. No wonder fulmars are called flying dustbins! PU3P visits North Walls School, Hoy. How do you clean the ocean? You clean the shore! The most popular video of the day was the one that ...

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Pick Up Three Pieces: January 2013

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Removing marine litter from Orkney shores 3 pieces at a time. Its hard to prioritise and measure the amount of marine litter you pick up. Measuring by weight or volume doesn't account for all the smaller and potentially more deadly pieces that weigh very little. Some marine litter is just too remote to carry out like this collection on the shore near Billia Croo. All over Orkney's beaches the winter storms have deposited a huge amount of marine litter - a great deal of it is plastic. PU3P is proud to be ...

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Pick Up Three Pieces: Shapinsay Bag the Bruck 2014

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Removing marine litter from Orkney shores 3 pieces at a time. Shapinsay Bag the Bruck 2014. The children at Shapinsay School tackled the annual bruck bagging on the shores at Sandgarth beach. Here are a few examples of what they found:. Black plastic sheeting (baling wrap? Awesome effort Litter Warriors! Most of this bruck was made of plastic. Some of it made specially for disposing of immediately after it was used! Well done Shapinsay School! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Orkney Local Access Forum.

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Pick Up Three Pieces: A guest post by Mary Harris - The children of North Walls School show they care for their beach.

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Removing marine litter from Orkney shores 3 pieces at a time. A guest post by Mary Harris - The children of North Walls School show they care for their beach. Across the road on the other side is the more sheltered North Bay, rich in various shell fish and marine life, it is important to many birds including ducks, divers and waders. Part of the PU3P campaign is to visit local schools and discuss with the children sea life, tides,. So it is a step forward for our community to have this prominently placed...

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Pick Up Three Pieces: September 2013

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Removing marine litter from Orkney shores 3 pieces at a time. Big Beachwatch Weekend 2013. The Marine Conservation Society Big Beachwatch Weekend is on the third weekend in September every year. All round the coast of the UK groups of volunteers were surveying 100m of their beach and cleaning up marine litter. The results of such a massive survey. Give a clear snapshot of the amount and types of litter washing up on our shores. The MCS Beachwatch team at Dingieshowe. The Eday Beachwatch Team at London Bay.

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Pick Up Three Pieces: February 2014

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Removing marine litter from Orkney shores 3 pieces at a time. Gruellie Belkies Saving Sanday's Shores. PU3P and Anne Bignall from the RSPB's Enjoy Wild Orkney project, visited Sanday Community Centre and then Sanday School to give a talk and slideshow along with the Sanday Ranger. Rod shared some memorable images of beach finds and strandings as well as some unfortunate victims of entanglement which have been found on the shore. Scratching the Surface' - a guest post by Anne Bignall. A place lacking in c...