@PlasticAtBay

Plastic@Bay is a non-profit company fighting marine plastic in the NW Highlands. We have 3 missions: Remediation, R&D (monitoring, recycling) and communication.

 Durness, Scotland
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Joined December 2017
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🚨New podcast episode🚨 of Under the Surface: The Pollution Experience featuring the wonderful @PlasticAtBay. To hear all about their work & thoughts on monitoring, collecting and recycling marine plastic see here: anchor.fm/underthesurface/ep… @APP4SEA_NPA

The Pollution Experience: Episode 9 - Plastic@Bay - Dr Joan D'Arcy & Dr Julien Moreau by Under the...

In this episode I am joined by two guests - Dr Joan D’Arcy and Dr Julien Moreau, co-founders of Plastic@Bay, a community interest company which started in the north west highlands, near cape wrath,...

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To our knowledge this is inaccurate, @MarineScotland does not support the removal of pollution. At contrary, it attacks groups seeking support from the government to deal with 100s of tons of #oceanplastic washing up on the Scottish shores.
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@ScotGovMarine28 Sep 2022
📢 The Marine Litter Strategy has a clear purpose: to develop current & future measures to prevent litter from entering the marine & coastal environment, and to support its removal, in order to bring ecological, economic & social benefits 🌊🚮
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If we leave the plastic currently in the ocean, and the beach it will exponentially fragment. Once microplastics, us and all the organisms on Earth are condemn to eat and breathe plastic. There is 10 times more plastic in the environment than what we use per year.
From Le Breton et al 2019: A global mass budget for positively buoyant macroplastic debris in the ocean Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 12922 (2019) Caption: Future projections for accumulated mass of buoyant macroplastics (top) and degraded material (microplastics, bottom) from the ocean surface layer under three scenarios for emissions. (Red) Emissions are increasing at average 2005–2015 growth rate, (Dark blue) emissions are constant from 2020 and (Light blue) emissions are stopped from 2020. Solid lines represent mid-point estimates while shaded areas represent uncertainties.

ALT From Le Breton et al 2019: A global mass budget for positively buoyant macroplastic debris in the ocean Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 12922 (2019) Caption: Future projections for accumulated mass of buoyant macroplastics (top) and degraded material (microplastics, bottom) from the ocean surface layer under three scenarios for emissions. (Red) Emissions are increasing at average 2005–2015 growth rate, (Dark blue) emissions are constant from 2020 and (Light blue) emissions are stopped from 2020. Solid lines represent mid-point estimates while shaded areas represent uncertainties.

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Megaplastics are of industrial origin, they will make more fragments. Once microplastic, it is impossible to recover. Slowly, fragments will become smaller and smaller, and more and more toxic. Therefore there is an absolute emergency in recovering all the plastic we can, now!
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Bo Eide@BoEide18 Sep 2022
In celebration of #worldcleanupday2022 I started on this #trawlnet. A tad optimistic, yes, but if I find 75 kayakers to help me, we might get somewhere.. #ALDFG, a too often found #marinelitter and #microplastics source.
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Bo Eide@BoEide7 Sep 2022
Finally got around to pick up this, stored for a while. It felt good, getting this #fishingnet bundle off the shoreline. This net had a Whitby, UK buoy attached so it has possibly come a long way. #lessplasticmoreocen
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Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre. Open access paper by @modellinghouse et al can be downloaded here: nature.com/articles/s41598-0…

Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North...

Scientific Reports - Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre

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Open Message to Sea Shepherd Supporters from Captain Paul Watson. I now have started a Foundation to continue my work. Feel free to support my Foundation at paulwatsonfoundation.org
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Bo Eide@BoEide3 Sep 2022
Two boatloads of #plastic #marinelitter picked in just one little cove, on an island west of #Tromsø, mostly cans, bottles, styrofoam and trawl floats. A new hotspot to follow up. Will we ever have #trashfreeseas ?
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The further north you go, the more you pay for electricity. The U.K. government chooses to perpetuate that injustice. Vast tracts of the Highlands & Islands are off gas grid - we pay four times more for our heat than our central belt neighbours. And the climate is colder. 👇 – at Scotland, United Kingdom
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Biodegradable eco-tape strong and durable with high tensile strength for great performance.
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📣 WE ARE RECRUITING!
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Thanks for the call out! Just made it to the Portobello kiln - looking forward to reconfiguring 18 #LitterCUBES into my LOST Climate Action Exhibition @artwalkporty next weekend. #MarinePlasricLitter #ClimateCrisis @mcsuk @cathgem2000 @FidraTweets @PlasticAtBay @KSBScotland
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