Help the Beach

Glass bottles

because there will be people drinking beer and soft drinks and there will be broken glass in the sand. They can take them home and put them in the recycling bin.

Don't litter in the first place

Take your own bags to the supermarket and when you get a coffee bring your own cup.

biodegradable Means

.biodegradable means that it rots then gets eaten by the bacteria

Plastic bags

because some people chuck them on the beach and it can kill the seagulls and it goes into the water when the dolphins and fish eat it because they think it is a jelly fish so they eat it

Plastic bottle

450 years

Chip packet

33 years

Tin can

50 years

Banana skin

Three - four weeks

Plastic bag

10 - 20 years

Apple core

2 months

Fishing line

600 years

Ply wood

1 - 3 years

Foamed Buoy

50 years

Cardboard box

2 mounths

Paper towel

2 - 4 weeks

Plastic Beveridge holder

400 years

newspaper

6 weeks

wool socks

1 - 5 years

Aluminium can

200 years

cotton shirt

2 - 5 mounths

Disposable dipper

450 years

Waxed carton

3 mounths

Styrofoam cup

50 years

Cigarette butt

1 - 5 years

Photo degradable Beveridge holder

6 mounths

Leather shoes

25 - 40 years

cotton wool

1 - 5 mounths

Milk packet

5 years

Hair spray bottle

200 - 500 years

Sanitary napkins & children diapers

500 - 800 years

Thread

3 - 4 mounths

cotton

1 - 5 mounths

rope

3 - 14 mounths

nylon clothes

30 - 40 years