Plastic litter up nearly 10% on UK beaches, charity clean-up finds

NAMPA / DPA
2025-03-19
London (PA Media/dpa) - The amount of plastic litter on beaches around the UK increased by almost a tenth last year, volunteer beach cleans have revealed. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said more than 15,000 volunteers picked up three quarters of a million pieces of litter across beaches in the UK in 2024, averaging 170 items per 100 metres of coastline surveyed. Its latest annual "state of our beaches" report reveals that plastic litter c......
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