Ben Collins
Working with Keep Britain Tidy and MYGroup (a waste management company), we spent the day collecting lobster pots, rope, and fishing nets that had washed up on Spurn beach, removing it before it could re-enter the sea and cause harm to wildlife.
1420 kgs of waste was collected, including 70 discarded lobster pots.
Ben Collins
Ben Collins
Ben Collins
Ben Collins
MYGroup’s ReFactory scheme aims to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfill. A closed-looped recycling scheme is used where collected waste from our environment or industries is sorted and repurposed into something new.
Recyclables, hard to recycle materials and even single use plastics have been transformed into a range of items, including furniture, textiles, combs, and self-care products. This gives waste that would have otherwise ended up in landfill a new life, helping us to reuse the resources we already have.
Ben Collins
Lost or discarded fishing gear or ‘ghost gear’ often harms marine wildlife and contributes to plastic pollution in our oceans. It's estimated that between 500,000 to 1 million tons is left in our oceans every year. Some ghost gear is also plastic, taking decades to break down, further damaging marine ecosystems.
Gear left in the ocean can continue to catch wildlife, without a way to be released. This is the deadliest plastic debris in marine environments, trapping seabirds, turtles, and marine mammals.
Removing over a tonne of discarded lobster pots from Spurn’s coastline is a huge achievement. Marine litter like this can pose a serious risk to wildlife through entanglement, but by working with Keep Britain Tidy and the recyclers from My group in Hull, we’ve been able to give these materials a second life rather than seeing them go to waste.Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Mark Thomas
Join us on a Waves of Waste beach clean event as we tidy up beaches, including Spurn, and help marine wildlife in the North Sea.
