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18: The Great British Beach Clean, with Lizzie Prior and the Marine Conservation Society
18: The Great British Beach Clean, with Lizzie Prior and the Marine Conservation Society
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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Nov 28, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Every year, millions of items of litter wash up on our shores, from crisp packets and plastic bottles to cigarette stubs and microplastics, and every year hundreds of volunteers join the Marine Conservation Society's Great British Beach Clean weekend. Volunteers get to be citizen scientists, picking up all the litter found on a 100m stretch of their local beach, recording what they find and sending the data off to MCS, who use the results to inform policy and ask for government change. Today, MCS is releasing the results of their 2019 clean up, so this week Emma has had a chat with Lizzie Prior, the Beachwatch Officer at MCS, to find out more about the scheme, why it's important and how we can get involved!
Thanks to Lizzie for joining us this week, and to the Marine Conservation Society, who you can also find on Instagram and Twitter. Read the full report here.
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Thanks also to Mark Skinner for our intro and outro music.
Thanks to Lizzie for joining us this week, and to the Marine Conservation Society, who you can also find on Instagram and Twitter. Read the full report here.
Don't forget to subscribe, find us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and leave us a review!
Get your organic cotton FWIE podcast tee here: https://forwhatitsearth.teemill.com
Thanks also to Mark Skinner for our intro and outro music.
Released:
Nov 28, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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