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Last Friday afternoon, three staff from Marine Scotland took to the beach on Greyhope Road to undertake a wee bit of beach cleaning as part of the annual \u2018Great British Beach Clean\u2019 event run by the Marine Conservation Society.\u00a0 Marine Scotland has, of course, been looking after this stretch of beach for the last 18 months.\u00a0 However, we must continue our efforts to keep this beach litter free.\u00a0 Danny Pendrey, Lyndsay Cruickshank and I spent some time picking up oodles and oodles of bits of expanded polystyrene as well pieces\"Greyhope<\/a> of expanded polystyrene cups.\u00a0 Although there were some larger pieces of litter, it was perhaps gratifying to note that the amount of macro litter has greatly decreased since Marine Scotland has been tending to this beach.\u00a0 However, the beach continues to be plagued with small bits of litter, especially expanded polystyrene.<\/p>\n

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