Francine Hijmans

The beach is not an ashtray! Cigarette butts are still the most commonly found trash on tourist beaches. During the Boskalis Beach Cleanup Tour, organised by the North Sea Foundation, no fewer than 86,954 cigarette butts were collected in 15 days. Especially on busy beaches, the sand was littered with cigarette butts: in the coastal […]

You’re unlikely to notice them when you wander the beach: tiny plastic pellets. Sadly, they regularly wash ashore on North Sea beaches. In fact, once you start paying attention, you’ll find that these pellets or so-called ‘nurdles’ are pretty common in certain areas. These tiny plastic pellets are used as resources in the plastics industry: