{"id":4833,"date":"2016-02-24T10:28:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T10:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scotland.gov.uk\/coastal-monitoring\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2019-06-03T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T10:50:11","slug":"marine-scotland-staff-clean-up-19-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2016\/02\/24\/marine-scotland-staff-clean-up-19-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Scotland Staff Clean Up: 19 February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some plucky colleagues from the Marine Laboratory donned their waterproofs last Friday, and joined forces with Aberdeen City Council companions, for a very wet and windy litter-pick. The area inside Torry battery, the shore and the embankment below, where lots of juice bottles and fireworks were found, were all cleared of waste. \u00a0A truly great effort by all; considering the elements they were up against!<\/p>\n<p>So the updated statistics for all the clean-ups to date are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over<strong> 90<\/strong> volunteers have participated<\/li>\n<li>Bottles and cans recycled total = <strong>4,884<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Full bin-bags of waste total = <strong>208<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Person effort, in minutes, collecting = <strong>16,030 (267 hrs)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4850 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/02\/All-litter-picking-group-with-Professor-Moffat.jpg\" alt=\"All litter picking group with Professor Moffat\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/427;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>*************************<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For residents in the Kingswells, Aberdeen, area a community clean-up will be taking place on the 16<sup>th<\/sup> of April.<\/li>\n<li>Help to Keep Scotland Beautiful\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org\/local-environmental-quality\/clean-up-scotland\">http:\/\/www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org\/local-environmental-quality\/clean-up-scotland<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some plucky colleagues from the Marine Laboratory donned their waterproofs last Friday, and joined forces with Aberdeen City Council companions, for a very wet and windy litter-pick. 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