Factoid/2007/10/05
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Plastic "Mermaid Tears" Mar United Kingdom Beaches
- "Bringing the beach, complete with plastic tideline, to London, Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) campaigners and mermaids presented Peter Davis, Director General of the British Plastics Federation (BPF) with a 500ml plastic bottle filled with 10,000 plastic pellets, known as 'mermaid's tears'. The pellets were collected from just 1 UK beach (Porthtowan, Cornwall) but are representative of a growing tide of mermaid's tears littering the UK's coastline. SAS called on all delegates at the biopolymer seminar to urgently tighten industry practices ensuring plastic, especially these 'mermaid's tears' don't end up on the beach. Plastics eclipse every other type of litter on UK beaches by far." - excerpt from Surfers Against Sewage web page.
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