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