UK beaches swamped by plastic litter, say campaigners
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UK beaches swamped by plastic litter, say campaigners
Volunteers at 400 beaches collected 1,849 items of litter per kilometre in the weekend of the MCS’s 2009 survey and 63% of it Led bulbs was plastic, it said.
It said the amount of rubbish was 77% higher than in 1994 - its first annual survey - and the proportion of plastic volunteers found had never been higher.
However, the overall amount of litter collected was down on 2008.
The MCS says plastic is unsightly and harmed marine animals.
A spokeswoman said the figures showed plastic makes up an increasing proportion of beach litter - now nearly two-thirds of the total.
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She said a 16% drop in litter collected since last year’s findings was a small trough in an overall upward trend.
She added there had been calm weather in the run up to September, when the latest survey took place.
The survey involved more than 4,600 volunteers, each of whom went to their favourite beach fiber isolator over one weekend. Altogether, they collected 2,742 rubbish bags of waste.
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